) provides a list of university presses now on line. An exhaustive compilation of UUAP presses is available gopher://gopher.pupress.princeton.edu.For examples of traditional journal publishers, see Project Muse at http://muse.jhu.eduFor examples of electronic texts on the internet see The Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/alex-index.html or The On-line Books Page http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/books.html. [4] These statistics are based on the output of the University of California program wwwstat as applied to the EJS monthly log files. The program is is available free to the general public http://www.ics.uci.edu/WebSoft/wwwstat. [5] The Yahoo index of sociology is located at http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Sociology/Journals.To get to the Yahoo index home page, leave of the last portion of the url and enter http://www.yahoo.com [6] A graphical representation of this point is provided by data collected by ARL. The page and related graphs are available available http://viva.lib.Virginia.EDU/arlstats/1994/graphs.html and http://viva.lib.Virginia.EDU/arlstats/1994/arl941.gif.[7] In math, for example, the number of papers published doubles every 10-15 years (Odlyzko, 1994). [8] As libraries reduce their acquisitions budgets, publishers feel pressure as well. This has resulted in the elimination of specialist lines of literature which are useful to small academic communities but which cannot regain the cost of their publication (Vance, 1994).[9] For a detailed discussion of the costs of publishing paper journals, see (Odlyzko, 1994).[10] A number of commentators have called for empirical research into the remuneration practices of the scholarly press in order to substantiate their claims that editors and editorial boards are not paid for their services. It seems a useful and timely project. [11] For an in-depth discussion of these issues, see the e-mail interchange between Lorrin Garson, Steve Harnad a...
