For decades, the supra-inflation increase of subscription prices for scholarly journals has concerned institutions. After years fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access been proposed as latest potential solution. However, publishing are also high and rising well beyond inflation. What missing from public discussion so far is a quantitative approach determine actual <...

Scholarly communication began as an interpersonal exchange of findings between fellow researchers (1). In time, the need arose for a structured, comprehensive, and pragmatic means of communicating scientific knowledge in the form of scholarly journals. Scientists did research for the sake of progress, and journals strived to catalyze the dissemination of research as widely as possible. In the a...

The research literature on open access (OA) publishing has mainly dealt with journals publishing in English, and studies focusing on OA journals in other languages are less common. This article addresses this gap via a case study focusing on Chinese-language OA journals. It starts with the identification of the major characteristics of this market, followed by eight semi-structured interviews t...

The Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies publishes single-authored and thematic collected volumes of new scholarship. Manuscripts are invited for publication in the series in fields of the study of culture, literature, the arts, media studies, communication studies, the history of ideas, etc., and related disciplines of the humanities and social scie...

533 " [Everything] has to come to an end, sometime. " L. Frank Baum The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) 1 As our regular readers know, this is a very special issue of College & Research Libraries. It is the last one that we will print. Beginning with the first issue of volume 75 (January 2014), this journal will join many others in being published solely in digital form. The road to this decision h...