<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div><br></div><div>* Announcement (cross-posted) *</div><div><br></div><div>I just mailed the December issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at OA journals published by scholarly societies. Excerpt: "How many scholarly societies publish OA journals, and how many OA journals do they publish? Four years ago (November 2007), Caroline Sutton and I released the first edition of our inventory answering those questions, and today we release the second edition. Cutting to the chase: Our 2007 list turned up 425 societies publishing 450 full or non-hybrid OA journals. Our 2011 list shows 530 societies publishing 616 full OA journals."</div>
<div><br></div><div>The look-back sections reprint short excerpts from SOAN five and ten years ago this quarter. </div><div><br></div><div>December 2011 issue</div><div><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-11.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-11.htm</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>How to subscribe and unsubscribe to the newsletter and discussion forum.</div><div><a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan">http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan</a></div><div><br></div>
<div>The current and back issues are all open access, of course.</div><div><a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm">http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm</a></div><div><br></div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Peter</div><div><br></div><div>Peter Suber</div><div>Senior Researcher, SPARC</div><div>Berkman Fellow, Harvard University</div><div>Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College</div>
<div>Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge</div><div><a href="http://gplus.to/petersuber">gplus.to/petersuber</a></div><div><br></div></font></font>