Michael Mabe, formerly VP at Elsevier and currently CEO of the International Association of STM Publishers (with membership representing nearly all major society and commercial publishers); presented the commercial and society publisher perspective on the Open Access debate including the Brussels Declaration opposed to many of the tenants of Open Access. Sponsored by ALA Federal and Armed Forces Libraries Roundtable (FAFLRT). Presented on June 25, 2007 at ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

1. Open Access and Publishers Michael A Mabe Chief Executive Officer, STM & Visiting Professor in Information Science at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) and City University (London) [email_address]

4. Global Trends in Research Output In decline Growing

6. Article Growth 1981-2005 ~3% p.a. ISI Data

7. Journal Growth 1665-2006 Data from Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory on CD-ROM Total number of active refereed learned journals in 2006: 21,000 [Source: M A Mabe The number and growth of journals Serials 16 (2).191-7, 2003]

8. Journals Track Number of Researchers [Source: NSF and ISI Data]