Public Knowledge Project's Scholarly Publishing Economic Index
- Percentage increase in journal subcription fees, 1986-1999: 207%
ARL Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries, 1986-1999, http://www.arl.org. - Ratio of inflation rate for journals compared to health care, 1986 to 1999: 2:1
ARL. (2000, August 11). Scholars under siege, http://www.arl.org. - Percentage decrease in serials purchased by leading research libraries, 1986-1999: - 6%
ARL Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries, 1986-1999, http://www.arl.org - Projected percentage decrease of library purchasing power from 1995 to 2007: - 80%
Hawkins, B. L. (1998). The unsustainability of the traditional library and the threat to higher education. In B. L. Hawkins & P. Battin (Eds.), The mirage of continuity: Reconfiguring academic information resources for the 21st century (pp. 129-153). Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources and Association of American Universities - Projected percentage of annual knowledge production libraries can afford by 2001: 0.01%
ARL. (2000, August 11). Scholars under siege, http://www.arl.org - Projected total cost of the 11 most expensive journals by 2015: $431,000
ARL. (2000, August 11). Scholars under siege, http://www.arl.org - Ratio of per-page-costs for leading non-profit and commercial economics journal: 1:24
ARL.Bergstrom, T. C. (2000, Dec 1). Free Labor for Costly Journals? University of California Santa Barbara. http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/jep.pdf. - Ratio of costs by how often these journal's articles have recently been cited: 1:65
ARL.Bergstrom, T. C. (2000, Dec 1). Free Labor for Costly Journals? University of California Santa Barbara. http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/jep.pdf. - Reed Elsevier's (1,402 journals) market share of scientific, technical, and medical journals: 30%
David D. Kirkpatick, As publishers perish, libraries feel the pain, New York Times, November 3, 2000. - Annual rate of return on investment for Elsevier, 1999: 29%
Reed Elsevier, http://www.reed-elsevier.com - Traditional rate of return on investment in publishing industry: 3-4%
Andre Schiffrin in S. Martin. (2000, Nov 27). The new world order," Globe & Mail, p. R1 - Number of journals newly acquired by Elsevier, 2000: 450
Reed Elsevier, http://www.reed-elsevier.com - Number of new journals launched by Elsevier for 2001: 26
Reed Elsevier, http://www.reed-elsevier.com - Amount Elseiver invested in 2000 to put journals online: $60 million
David D. Kirkpatick. (2000, Nov 2). As publishers perish, libraries feel the pain, New York Times. - Promised increase in cost of Elseiver complete journal package, 2000: "annually less than 10%"
Reed Elsevier http://www.reed-elsevier.com - Amount spent on journals by ARL research libraries in 2000; $537 million
Association of Research Libraries Statistics, 1999-2000 http://www.arl.org - Percentage of library materials budget spent on journals, 1997: 63%
ARL Statistics, Developing Indicators 1995-96 and 1996-97, http://www.arl.org - Estimated value of scientific, technical, and medical publishing industry worldwide: $6 billion
David D. Kirkpatick. (2000, Nov 2). As publishers perish, libraries feel the pain, New York Times. - Value of Coke's annual advertising budget worldwide: $1 billion
S. Elliott & G. Winter, (2000 December 2), Coke forms alliance with Interpublic. New York Times, B1. - Percentage increase in student use of online journal articles at UNB, 1996-1999: 1800%
John Teskey, Director of Libraries, University of New Brunswick, Interview, Nov 21, 2000. - Cost to house a single journal volume for one year: $20
Hawkins, B. L. (1998). The unstainability of the traditional library and the threat to higher education. - Estimated saving for U.S. Federal Depository Library by going entirely on-line: 66%
Southwick, R. (2000, Nov 10). Budget will rise for Arts and Humanities endowments. Chronicle of Higher Education, pp. A29
