Allen Press has produced a 2012 Study of Subscription Prices for Scholarly Society Journals based on historical prices over the past two years from 220 journals and survey findings from 20 society/association publishers. The study reveals how libraries are dealing with the present budget challenges and the consequences for scholarly publishers.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for 2011 has been released. Journal Citation Reports uses Web of Science citation data to evaluate and compare scholarly journals. The 2011 release features the largest-ever JCR with 10,677 journal listings in 232 disciplines; 2,552 publishers from 82 countries are represented. A total of 528 journals receive their first Journal Impact Factor in this latest JCR release.

PeerJ offers academics two Open Access publication options:

PeerJ - a peer-reviewed open access academic journal
PeerJ PrePrints - a 'pre-print' server that allows you to gain credit and feedback from peers before publishing.

On 10th June, the Future Tense programme on ABC Radio National looks at academic journals, the Elsevi

The library is participating in an international online survey into journal use and reading patterns.

All staff and students are encouraged to take part.

It should only take five minutes to complete and it runs until May 11.

Click here for more information and to access the survey.

The National Information Standards Organization and the National Federation for Advanced Information Services have issued a new Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part A: Business Policies and Practices (NISO RP-15

The Academic Knowledge and Language graphic visualises the role that language of publication plays in the dissemination of academic knowledge through scholarly journals. It is obvious from first glance that English is entirely dominant.

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is growing - now providing access to 7000 journals. 45% of the journals are searchable on article level = more than 600 000 articles searchable.

The ARC has released the draft ERA 2012 Journal List for public comment. The draft incorporates feedback from the journal list public consultation phase (14 February - 4 April 2011). The ARC will accept comments on the draft list until 4pm (AEST) on Monday, 19 September 2011.

The list can be downloaded in Excel format here.