List of figures and tables
6.1. Total number of scientific journals and abstract journals founded worldwide, 1665–2000
6.2. Total number of scientific and technical journals in the US, 1839–2000 (predicted after 1978)
6.3. Active refereed scholarly/academic journal title growth since 1665 (log scale)
6.4. Growth rates of R&D workers versus journals and articles
6.5. Growth in periodical titles
9.1. Number of open access papers published 2000–11 by a selection of major publishers
9.2. Number of open access journals in the DOAJ, 2002–11
9.3. Number of articles in PMC
9.4. Number of submissions to arXiv
9.5. Publications by PLOS ONE per quarter since launch
9.6. Mega journal publications per month since launch
9.8. Hybrid OA uptake at Oxford University Press, 2007–11
11.1. Proportion of Australian 2010 publications accounting for 50 per cent and 90 per cent of citations (to October 2012) in selected Web of Science subjects
11.2. Manuscript submissions in six-month periods versus impact factor for the journal Aging Cell
11.3a. Average number of citations (to end April 2013) to regular and review articles published in New Phytologist, 2009–11
11.3b. Average number of citations (to end April 2013) to regular and review articles published in Journal of Urology, 2009–11
11.3c. Average number of citations (to end April 2013) to regular and review articles published in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2009–11
11.4. Average article downloads (to end April 2008) for journal articles published in 2007 in three areas of science
13.1. Serial titles per full-time equivalent (FTE) student
13.2a. Percentage of total expenditure on information provision
13.2b. Percentage of information provision expenditure on serials
13.2c. Percentage of serial expenditure on electronic serials
15.1. An example of the Article of the Future prototype (a three-pane view)
15.2. An example of an interactive (Google) map
15.3. Interactive crosshairs chart developed for electrochemistry
15.4. Interactive plates developed for paleontology
15.5. Compound information displayed in the right sidebar of the electrochemistry prototype (left) and the experimental flowchart shown in the right sidebar of the psychology prototype (right)
15.6. Right pane formula display in the mathematics prototype. (This prototype features the MathJax formula rendering [http://www.mathjax.org])
15.7. Protein information displayed in the right sidebar of the parasitology prototype. (This prototype features the 3D Jmol-based protein viewer [http://jmol.sourceforge.net/])
15.8. Gaze plots (Morimoto and Mimica, 2004) of five participants generated for the Article of the Future (top) and pre-2012 ScienceDirect (bottom) article views
15.9. Heat maps (Morimoto and Mimica, 2004) generated for the Article of the Future prototype for five participants (left) and three participants (right): the areas with the darkest tints correspond to the maximum number of gaze fixations
15.10. Snapshots from the user behaviour recordings in the Article of the Future prototype condition (top) and in the pre-2012 ScienceDirect condition (bottom)
15.11. Average time spent on HTML/PDF usage in the Article of the Future prototype condition (left) and time spent on HTML/PDF usage per article for both conditions (right)
15.12. Number of times additional content was used per article (left) and a pie chart illustrating user preferences for the Article of the Future format against alternative article presentations in the HTML format (right)
15.13. Average time spent on evaluation of irrelevant articles (left) and average number of PDF downloads (right)
15.14. A pie chart of people’s responses to the question shown in the textbox
15.15. Ratings of the main Article of the Future design elements (1 = useless to 8 = very useful)
5.1. Journal pricing by disciplines
6.1. Growth in the number of journals according to Ulrichsweb, May 2002 to November 2011
6.2. Growth of science journals based in the US, 1965–95
6.3. Average article length of US science articles, 1975–2011
6.4. Average article length in 1995, 2007 and 2011 obtained from samples of approximately 50 journals from each field. The average article length across all fields is a weighted average of the individual fields, with weight factors based on the size of journal populations in Ulrich’s as of 19 October 2008
9.1. Number of PLOS ONE submissions and published papers, 2007–11
9.3. Publishers currently in the mega journal market
9.4. Hybrid offer and uptake at 12 major publishers
11.1. Importance and coverage of different subjects in ISI citation indexes (based on references in articles and reviews published during 2002)
11.2. Proportions of selected subject coverage in ISI journal vs. conference proceedings indexes
11.3. Constituent dentistry journals in three ranking systems, 2011
11.4. Top ten journals ranked by impact factor
11.5. Top ten journals ranked by Eigenfactor
11.6. Top ten journals ranked by SJR
11.7. Top ten journals ranked by SNIP
16.1. Latin American and Caribbean journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals in 2013
16.2. Journals from LAC, Spain and Portugal included in SciELO and Redalyc
17.1. Sub-Saharan African titles indexed in international directories
17.2. Regular AJOL users by continent, 2011
18.1. Number of Chinese STM and HSS journals, 2001–9
18.2. Publishing of subgroups of periodicals in China in 2009
18.3. Pricing of subgroups of Chinese periodicals, 2009
18.4. Location distribution of Chinese academic journals published in minority languages, 2009
18.5. Geographical spread of Chinese STM and HSS journal publishing, 2009