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Double apologies: I gave the wrong email address for notifying me if a
posting has failed to appear because I mistook it for spam:
Please email me at harnad -- ecs.soton.ac.uk (not .edu)
Stevan Harnad
On 13-Aug-09, at 5:40 AM, Stevan Harnad wrote:
> Apologies for the failure to post this earlier. I misidentified it as
> spam because the email address was unfamiliar and the Forum receives
> so much spam. (The old amsci listserv software has no spam filter and
> the "moderator's" role is now to a great extent detecting and deleting
> spam!). If any other messages have failed to appear, please alert me
> at my regular email address, harnad -- ecs.soton.edu and I will
> retrieve and post immediately. I had to re-post this in my own name as
> the confirmation number for the original 5 August posting had
> expired.)
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: albert prior <aprior -- contentcomplete.com>
> Date: Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:13 AM
> Subject: FW: Number of scholarly journals in the world.
> To: amsciforum -- gmail.com
>
>
> Stevan
>
> Re my email below, I have not seen it on the listserv and wondered
> whether it had been received/or any reason for not including it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Albert Prior
>
>
>
> From: albert prior [mailto:aprior_at_contentcomplete.com]
> Sent: 05 August 2009 15:15
> To: 'jean.claude.guedon -- umontreal.ca';
> 'AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG'
> Subject: RE: Number of scholarly journals in the world.
>
>
>
> Two other sources of information on numbers of journal titles are the
> databases maintained at the journals subscription agents and the ISSN
> Centre (http://www.issn.org/)
>
> These databases are maintained to support the subscription orders
> received from libraries worldwide. When I worked some years ago for
> Swets, one the largest subscription agents, the numbers of titles on
> their database was close to 100,000. A number of these would have been
> ?bibliographic database? titles as opposed to journals and they also
> included ?book series? and popular magazines
>
>
>
> Swets? library customers were predominantly research and academic
> institutions however andtheir title database reflected orders received
> from this type of library (as opposed to say public libraries).
>
> I have no up to date information on numbers of titles currently on the
> agents? databases, but looking at the latest survey of journal price
> increases that Swets publishes annually, the numbers of titles
> included in the survey is 71,872. The survey does classify titles by
> very broad subject fields.
>
> See:
>
> http://www.swets.com/upload/1637868_672_1225792258001-SPI_Serials_Price_In
> crease_Report_2009_(31-10-08).pdf
>
>
>
> Albert Prior
>
> Content Complete Ltd
>
> www.contentcomplete.com
>
>
>
>
>
> From: American Scientist Open Access Forum
> [mailto:AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG]
> On Behalf Of Jean-Claude Guédon
> Sent: 04 August 2009 21:07
> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
> Subject: Number of scholarly journals in the world.
>
>
>
> In the last few years, various attempts to estimate the number of
> journals in the world have been used. Figures ranging from about
> 14,000 (Michael Mabe) to about 23,000 (Stevan Harnad) have been
> regularly brought forth. Few numbers have been used beyond these two
> numbers, although they exist.
>
> I have often felt these numbers were much too small.
>
> A new piece of evidence supporting my feeling was recently published
> in France: A 721-page list of social science and humanities journals
> comprising around 20,000 titles has been compiled. This list is
> limited to SSH journals and it relies only on a small number of
> sources: Web of Science, Scopus, ERIH and the French list AERES. Lists
> such as Redalyc for Latin America have not yet been used. There are
> probably long lists of journals to add from India and China, and other
> countries. In short, although impressive, this list is still
> incomplete and it covers only SHS journals.
>
> The point here is that this list demonstrates the existence of a much
> larger set of scholarly and scientific journals than has been used in
> our past discussions. This impacts directly on how we evaluate various
> approaches to Open Access.
>
> The list can be downloaded at http://www.cybergeo.eu/index22492.html
>
> I am sure the authors would love receiving further advice and
> information to complete their list.
>
> Jean-Claude Guédon
Received on Thu Aug 13 2009 - 10:46:02 BST