{"id":398,"date":"2015-06-11T20:58:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T20:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2015-06-11T20:59:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T20:59:19","slug":"five-companies-control-more-than-half-of-academic-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/2015\/06\/11\/five-companies-control-more-than-half-of-academic-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Five companies control more than half of academic publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"text\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca\/udem-news\/news\/20150610-five-companies-control-more-than-half-of-academic-publishing.html\" target=\"_blank\">study at the University of Montrea<\/a>l shows that the market share of the five largest research publishing houses reached 50% in 2006, rising, thanks to mergers and acquisitions, from 30% in 1996 and only 20% in 1973. &#8220;Overall, the major publishers control more than half of the market of scientific papers both in the natural and medical sciences and in the social sciences and humanities,&#8221; said Professor Vincent Larivi\u00e8re of the School of Library and Information Science, who led the study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A press release from the University of Montreal can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca\/udem-news\/news\/20150610-five-companies-control-more-than-half-of-academic-publishing.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study at the University of Montreal shows that the market share of the five largest research publishing houses reached 50% in 2006, rising, thanks to mergers and acquisitions, from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/2015\/06\/11\/five-companies-control-more-than-half-of-academic-publishing\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five companies control more than half of academic publishing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Five companies control more than half of academic publishing","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_publicize_connection_overrides":[],"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[108513023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-selection","post-no-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Yk5l-6q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}