24.Lalisio literature search
25.LITDOK InWEnt German development research bibliography
26.MENALIB – Middle East Virtual Library University of Halle an der Saale, FRG 27.Periodicals Index Online
28.POLDOK journal literature 29.Proquest Abiinform 30.Questia
31.Sage Journals online
32.The Karlsruhe bibliography on international relations
33.UNBIS Net United Nations Bibliographical Resource from the UN's Dag Hammarskjöld Library
34.Virtual Library Eastern Europe
35.Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Politikwissenschaft. Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
36.Web of Science®
37.Weltpolitik.net, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Auswaertige Politik 38.Worldcat
Appe n dix Ta ble 1 0 : Th e w e bsit e s a n d con t a ct a ddr e sse s of t h e 2 1 pu blish e r s
W e bsit e Ge n e r a l con t a ct a ddr e ss for a u t h or pr oposa ls Amsterdam University Press http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show _visitor_home&m=28&l=2 http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visito r_service&b=auteurs&m=48
Ashgate http://www.ashgate.com/ http://www.ashgate.com/Default.aspx?p age=282
Blackwell http://www.blackwellpublishing.co m/
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/auth ors/bk_authors.asp
Cambridge UP http://www.cambridge.org/ Email [email protected] Campus (Frankfurt/Ann
Arbor)
http://www.campus.de/ No English language author page could be found, just the German language contact points stating: "Telefon +49(0)69/976516-0, Fax +49(0)69/976516-78, Email [email protected]", the publisher confirmed the non-existence of the English language website per telephone Cornell UP http://www.cornellpress.cornell.ed
u/
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup8 _authorguidelines.html
Edward Elgar http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/
Houghton/Mifflin http://www.hmco.com/indexf.html http://www.hmco.com/contact/author_co ntact.html
IOS Press http://www.iospress.nl/ http://www.iospress.nl/ Lexington Books (now
merged with Rowman/Littlefield http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Ab outLexington/ http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Editorial Guidelines/Index.shtml
Monthly Review Press http://www.monthlyreview.org/mr press.htm http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrpguide .htm Nova Science Publishers https://www.novapublishers.com/c atalog/index.php https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog /index.php?page=for_authors
Oxford University Press http://www.oup.co.uk/ http://www.oup.com/authors/ Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com/ http://www.palgrave.com/contactus/cont
acts/authorcontacts.asp Praeger (now merged
with Greenwood)
http://www.praeger.com/catalog/r eviews/Praeger%2BPublishers.aspx
http://www.praeger.com/contact_us/aut hor.aspx
Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/ http://www.routledge.com/info/authors Rowman/Littlefield http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/ http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Author
s/ Sage Publications http://www.sagepub.com/home.na
v;jsessionid=iENWFdg0thr2RgJ2Lyc u5g**.sagesavprdapp01vm http://www.sagepub.com/bookAuthEdit.n av Springer http://www.springer.com/?SGWID =1-102-0-0-0 http://www.springer.com/authors?SGWI D=1-111-0-0-0
St. Martin's Press http://us.macmillan.com/SMP.aspx from
http://international.macmillan.com/conta ctfaqs.asp: Due to the large number of unsolicited manuscript submissions received each year, Pan Macmillan doe s n ot e n cou r a ge a u t h or s t o su bm it t h e ir w or k on spe cu la t ion. New
From:
http://us.macmillan.com/Content.aspx?p ublisher=smp&id=749: We do not accept any unsolicited material, or responsibility for loss or damage to, or return of, any unsolicited materials you send to us; unsolicited materials will be recycled or otherwise discarded. Transaction http://www.transactionpub.com/cgi - bin/transactionpublishers.storefront http://www.transactionpub.com/cgi- bin/transactionpublishers.storefront/487c db2a001326bcea6ec0a80aa5070b/UserT emplate/3
Appe n dix Gr a ph 1 : Th e “for e n sic” e con om ics of sa le s figu r e s: US Libr a r y pr e se n ce figu r e s a n d Am a z on a n d globa l sa le s r a n k s – som e ve r y pr e lim in a r y gu e sse s fr om r a n dom ly pick e d socia l scie n ce a u t h or s a n d t h e ir m a j or w or k s
Th e t r a de - off for t h e e n t ir e sca le
US library presence figures and Amazon sales ranks
y = 4E+06e-0,004x R2 = 0,7058 0 1000000 2000000 3000000 4000000 5000000 6000000 7000000 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 100 0 110 0 120 0 130 0 140 0 150 0 160 0 170 0 180 0 190 0 200 0 some preliminary calculations - US World Cat open access library presence figures US
Amazon sales ranks, July 200
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Th e t r a de - off for t h e a ve r a ge Eu r ope a n socia l scie n t ist , pu blish in g in t e r n a t ion a lly
US library presence figures and Amazon sales ranks
y = 4E+06e-0,004x R2 = 0,7058 1000000 2000000 3000000 4000000 5000000 6000000 7000000 0 50 100 150 200 250 300
Amazon sales ranks, July 200
Th e t r a de - off be t w e e n US libr a r y pr e se n ce figu r e s a n d Am a z on sa le s r a n k s for r a n dom ly pick e d socia l scie n t ist s – a w or k in g h ypot h e sis in n e e d of lot s of fu r t h e r e vide n ce
US library presence figures and Amazon sales ranks
y = 4E+06e-0,004x R2 = 0,7058 500000 1000000 1500000 2000000 2500000 3000000 3500000 4000000 0 100 200 300 400 500 some preliminary calculations - US World Cat open access library presence figures US
Amazon sales ranks, July 200
8
Th e t r a de - off be t w e e n US libr a r y pr e se n ce figu r e s a n d globa l sa le s
US Library presence and global sales - The author's own evidence from 2 major companies
y = 2,2544x + 55,305 R2 = 0,9318 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 0 50 100 150 200 250 US Library holdings global s a les
Appe n dix Ta ble 1 1 : Th e t r a j e ct or y of a sm a lle r socia l scie n ce pu blish e r in t h e US, w h ich is n ow m or e t h a n 2 0 ye a r s on t h e m a r k e t – N ova Scie n ce Pu blish in g
The case of Nova Science in this context is not without interest, because it shows precisely to the European side how an open society and an open University system create opportunities even for newcomers on the market.
Although Nova started in the field of science, the company expanded into other disciplines as well and has become one of the major scientific book publishing companies in the US. When the company started its publishing activities by 1987, such titles as „ I ssues in intense- field quantum electrodynam ics“ ; „ The theory of target com pression by longwave laser em ission“ ; „ Laser applications in precision m easurem ent“ ; „ The Physical effects in the gravit ational field of black holes“ ; „ The nonlinear opt ics of sem iconductor lasers“ ; „ The Quantum electrodynam ics of a high- intensity field“ ; „ I ndustrial m easurem ent of electrical and elect ronic com ponents and equipm ent “
predominated. Dr. David Bade, a senior librarian from Chicago University, recently has taken on in a published internet article what he perceives as fundamental weaknesses of the company’s journal publishing program (Bade, 2007).
By 2007, the catalogue still listed 502 titles, containing the word "physics", and 585 titles containing the word "m edicine", but already 255 titles with the term "econom ics", 281 titles with the word "psychology", 77 titles with the word "political science", 50 titles with the word
"sociology", 52 titles with the term "religion", etc.
The current editor-in-chief is Mr. Fr a nk Colu m bu s.
International news and reference archives yield the following evidence:
" Le x is N e x is Un ive r sit y " I n t e r n a t ion a l Pr e ss" " , run by a Consortium of Swiss Universities, which combines in its archives such sources as La Stampa , The New York Times, The Age (Melbourne, Australia), The Japan Times, Milano Finanza, South China Morning Post, and Times Educational Supplement already mentions 6 6 1 a r t icle s to date, explicitly dealing with materials, published by " N ova Scie n ce Pu blish e r s"
" D ia log Se le ct Ope n Acce ss/ M a ga z in e s" , which combines complete texts of hundreds of magazines and journals from leading publishers, documented in sources such as Business Dateline, Business & Industry®, CMP Computer Fulltext, Computer News Fulltext, General Science Abstracts/Fulltext, Harvard Business Review, Gale Group Computer Database, Gale Group Health & Wellness, Gale Group Magazine Database, Gale Group Trade & Industry Database, The McGraw-Hill Companies Publications Online, and Periodical Abstracts PlusText™, carries to date already 1 8 9 a r t icle s referring explicitly to " N ova Scie n ce Pu blish e r s"
International bibliographical content and reference services for peer-reviewed refer to scientific works published by Nova Science Publishers in the following fashion:
" EBSCO Scie n t ific a bst r a ct s" , combining the most important scholarly journals in the social sciences, documented in Academic Search Premier, Academic Search Elite, Business Source Elite, EconLit, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Regional Business News, SocINDEX, already makes 1 0 1 2 e x plicit r e fe r e nce s to titles published by " N ova Scie n ce Pu blish e r s"
" Ca m br idge Scie n t ific Abst r a ct s ( CSA) " makes 1 8 9 r e fe r e n ce s to N ova Scie n ce Pu blish e r s t it le s in the field of socia l scie n ce s; in addition it lists 5 0 0 + w or ld cla ss sch ola r s
in the system, who already published with that publisher
2 8 search result s from M a r k e t in g & Adve r t isin g Re fe r e n ce ( LN E) 1 2 9 search results from ABI / I n for m Se le ct ( LN E)
3 6 7 search results from La w Re vie w s, Com bin e d ( LN E)
* " I n focon n e x Polit ica l Scie n ce " , a freely available political science data search engine, organized by the German Science Ministry and other scientific organizations in Germany, yielded
1 1 3 r e fe r e nce s for N ova Scie n ce Pu blish e r s titles (Infoconnex Political Science is partly based on Ca m br idge Scie n t ific Abst r a ct s PAI S)
" Joh n W ile y j ou r n a ls/ Bla ck w e ll Syn e r gy" , combining full-text access to the scholarly journals of that publishing company, carries 8 1 r e fe r e n ce s to articles, mentioning "Nova Science Publishers";
" I n for e t r ie ve a r t icle fin de r " , a free on-line scientific bibliography, mentions 4 7 a r t icle s, which directly refer to "Nova" titles
" Else vie r Scie n ce D ir e ct " , a website, which claims to present access to 1/4 of the world's medical, technical and science information, refers to 2 7 t it le s, which are explicitly referring to "Nova Science Publishers;
" JSTOR Ar t s a n d Scie n ce s I I " , a collection of the leading 125 journals in the fields of arts and humanities, mentions 2 2 a r t icle s with references or reviews of Nova titles;
" Ce n t r a l a n d Ea st e r n Eu r ope a n Libr a r y On lin e " , a new full-text bibliographical service, covering over 190 journals published in the new Eastern Europe, mentions 1 4 N ova t it le s etc. etc.
" Pr oj e ct M u se " , a free international internet bibliography, refers to 3 1 N ova Scie n ce pu blica t ion s
* " V ir t u e lle Fa ch bibliot h e k Polit ik w isse n sch a ft " , a freely available German on-line reference service for world-wide political science, initiated at Hamburg University, mentions the following references to N ova Scie n ce Pu blish in g t it le s:
"WWW- Suchraum Polit ikwissenschaft " • 134 "WWW- Suche [ Seekport] " • 94
"SSG- OPAC Polit ikwissenschaft . Friedensforschung" • 25 "World Affairs Online [ FI V I BLK] " • 30
"I nternationale Bibliographie der Sozialwissenschaft en [ I BSS] " • 197 "GBV - Gem einsam er Bibliotheksverbund" • 634
"KOBV Digitale Bibliothek Berlin- Brandenburg" • 9 "hbz- Verbundkatalog [ NRW] " • 1
"HeBI S - Hessisches Bibliot heksI nform at ionsSyst em " • 8 "SWB - Südwestdeut scher Bibliotheksverbund" • 168
Nova Science Publishers published the following number of titles and contributions from the following world’s top 20 Universities by end 2007
http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2007/ARWU2007.xls
https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/advanced_search.php
1 Harvard Univ 62 2 Stanford Univ 28
11 Yale Univ 33 12 Cornell Univ 35
13 Univ California - Los Angeles 21 14 Univ California - San Diego 19 15 Univ Pennsylvania 50
16 Univ Washington - Seattle 7 17 Univ Wisconsin - Madison 10 18 Univ California - San Francisco 13 19 Johns Hopkins Univ 24
20 Tokyo Univ 90
Also, researchers from some of America's leading government research institutions published with Nova:
US Military Academy 11 US Air Force Academy 7
Defense Intelligence College 6 titles Rand Corporation 5 titles
Hudson Institute 3 titles US Naval War College 1 US Army War College 1
Over recent years, Nova increasingly also published authors from Asian Universities
N ova Scie n ce Pu blish e r s t it le s a n d con t r ibu t ion s fr om t h e 1 0 le a din g Asia n Un ive r sit ie s
1 Tokyo Univ 20 2 Kyoto Univ 22
3 Australian National University 57 4 Hebrew Univ Jerusalem 64 5 Osaka Univ 67
6 Tohoku Univ 18 7 Univ Melbourne 35 8 Nagoya Univ 25 9 Tokyo Inst Tech 53 10 Hokkaido Univ 18
In addition, Nova also publishes a great number works by European researchers:
N ova Scie n ce Pu blish e r s t it le s a n d con t r ibu t ion s fr om t h e 1 0 le a din g Eu r ope a n Un ive r sit ie s
1 Univ Cambridge 47 2 Univ Oxford 28
3 Imperial Coll London 19 4 Univ Coll London 64
5 Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Zurich 9 6 Univ Paris 06 12
7 Univ Utrecht 27 8 Univ Copenhagen 16 9 Univ Manchester 23 10 Univ Paris 11 56
Est im a t e d ge ogr a ph ica l dist r ibu t ion of t it le s a n d con t r ibu t ion s ou t side t h e US
(Method: catalogue catchwords [product description] "University" + "country name". The following table contains just a sample of countries)
140 Poland 129 Turkey 109 Israel 107 Brazil 102 Sweden 79 Finland 76 South Africa 65 New Zealand 63 Argentina 54 Iran 47 Norway 34 Ireland 17 Pakistan 14 Saudi Arabia
Som e ch a r a ct e r ist ics of t h e globa l pu blish in g pr ogr a m ( Libr a r y of Con gr e ss: 2 5 3 6 t it le s by m id 2 0 0 7 )
The Library of Congress currently listed 2536 Nova Science Publishers titles (search August 11, 2007)