Indeed; I have often thought that the scholarly journals industry is an
examople of the diseconomies of scale. The best value is obtained from
small organisations that do not have to carry the central management
overhead costs of large ones.
Fytton Rowland, Loughborough University, UK.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Krichel" <krichel_at_OPENLIB.ORG>
To: <AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: Some initial thoughts on the Brussels Declaration on STM
publishing
> Peter Banks writes
>
>> What they might find a bit harder, say, is managing a portfolio of 1000+
>> journals. (The combined Blackwell-Wiley will have about 1250 journals).
>
> Why is there a need to managae journals by bundle if you are not
> selling access to them?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Krichel mailto:krichel_at_openlib.org
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