[GOAL] Counting researchers - some results

2012-01-09 Thread Arthur Sale
I recently posed to this list the question ‘How many researchers are there in the world?’ and gave some rough estimates that bounded the result N by 1M N 10M.  I have received several very useful pieces of data (and some non-useful responses). The question is clearly relevant to the

[GOAL] Fwd: Press Information: De Gruyter acquires Versita and becomes third-biggest international Open Access publisher

2012-01-09 Thread Richard Poynder
Of possible interest to list members.  For immediate release. De Gruyter acquires Versita and becomes third-biggest international Open Access publisher Berlin, January 9, 2012 De Gruyter, the Berlin-based academic publishing company, is acquiring the publisher Versita. As a service