Antitrust Issues

The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition—Web site chronicling publishing industry consolidation developed by Mary H. Munroe)

"Can Antitrust Save Academic Publishing?" by Albert A. Foer, President, The American Antitrust Institute (PDF)

IAA and AAI Symposium on Antitrust Issues Surrounding Scholarly and Legal Publishing, Feb. 2005

• Agenda and presentations
• Report on the Symposium by Lee C.Van Orsdel

Law Serials Pricing and Mergers: A Portfolio Approach by Dr. Mark J. McCabe, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology (PDF)

Publisher Mergers: A Consumer-Based Approach to Antitrust Analysis by Thomas M. Susman and David J. Carter, Ropes & Gray LLP—an important white paper on the need for a new antitrust perspective on mergers (PDF)

Market Conditions

Journal Prices & Library Budgets—a compilation of resources prepared by the Association of Research Libraries/Office of Scholarly Communication