<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Very interesting article, although the author missed a couple of points ... namely that </span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">1.Maxwell was very clever in providing 'personal subscriptions' to scientists at subscribing institutions at less than the cost of mailing.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">2. The 10% increase in price for Brain Research from 1975 to 1985 was due both to a 50% increase in the number of articles (1000 to 1500) but also to exchange rate changes. The value of the US$ vs Dutch Guilder underwent some major fluctuations in those years.</div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">3. Problems with exchange rate profiteering came later.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 4:35 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry.mahon@iol.ie" target="_blank">barry.mahon@iol.ie</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Interesting, especially nostalgic. However, a good start re Elsevier became the story of Maxwell. Pity<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On June 27, 2017 8:22:08 AM GMT+01:00, "Éric Archambault" <<a href="mailto:eric.archambault@science-metrix.com" target="_blank">eric.archambault@science-<wbr>metrix.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<pre class="m_2714800433126317453k9mail">Interesting article in the Guardian that spells out the role played by Robert Maxwell in the development of the scholarly journal industry. <br><br>Éric<br><br><br>Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr>science/2017/jun/27/<wbr>profitable-business-<wbr>scientific-publishing-bad-for-<wbr>science?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a><br><br><br>Eric Archambault<br><a href="http://1science.com" target="_blank">1science.com</a><br><a href="http://Science-Metrix.com" target="_blank">Science-Metrix.com</a><br><a href="tel:(514)%20495-6505" value="+15144956505" target="_blank">+1-514-495-6505 x111</a><br><br><hr><br>GOAL mailing list<br><a href="mailto:GOAL@eprints.org" target="_blank">GOAL@eprints.org</a><br><a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal" target="_blank">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.<wbr>uk/mailman/listinfo/goal</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></pre></blockquote></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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