Apologies for cross-posting. This will be of interest to those concerned
with access to scientific literature and scholarly communication
(particularly the commercial publishers role).
Caroline Moss-Gibbons
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Peel [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 1:52 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [SEPTEMBER98-FORUM] Monopolies
>
> The publishing company Harcourt Brace recently put itself up for sale. Its
> STM holdings include WB Saunders, Mosby, Churchill Livingstone, MD Consult
> and Academic Press. The financial press has been reporting that likely
> purchasers include Wolters Kluwer (owners of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
> and Ovid) and Reed Elsevier (owners of everything else).
> Can anybody direct me to any papers, publications, or other information
> that address the issue of monopolies and mergers in science publishing and
> the potential affects on the scientific community please?
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