Scientific Serials

Serials crisis Towards free access to scientific literature

Internet has profoundly changed the way scientific research is carried out. This in turn has altered our attitudes concerning access to scientific information. In this article we review a number of recent initiatives in various fields of science. We argue that the scientists in general, and mathematicians in particular, should actively support a transition towards free access to scientific lite...

Transfer from print to electronic serials

Structuring Serials Bibliographic Relationships through ID Linking

Law Serials Pricing and Mergers: A Portfolio Approach

Using data from more than 400 legal serials, I estimate the impact of six publisher mergers on law serial prices during the period, 1990-2000. The results suggest that merger-related price increases were substantial during this period, even after accounting for secular price trends. Furthermore, these merger effects occurred across a broadly-defined portfolio of serial titles consisting of lega...

North American perception of the prestige of biomechanics serials.

Biomechanics is a discipline with many applications and sub-areas so scholars often publish their work in journals in different subject categories used in the ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR). It is not known whether the quality/prestige of journals in the discipline of biomechanics matches the ISI Impact Factor (IF) ratings reported in JCR. A survey of the membership of the American Society ...