Washington, D.C.
October 14-16, 1998
The Impact of Publisher Mergers
Convened by Elaine Sloan, Chair
ARL Scholarly Communication Committee
I’m very pleased to introduce our speaker, Mark J. McCabe, formerly an economist with the Anti-Trust Division of the Department of Justice and now an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Mark was at the DOJ when the proposed Reed-Elsevier/Wolters-Kluwer merger was announced last Fall. At the urging of his legal counsel Mark set out to develop a new model for evaluating the impact of publisher mergers in the marketplace. He and his two colleagues, Renata Hesse and Aaron Hoke, spoke to a lot of you or to your staff last Fall and Winter in an attempt to understand research libraries as a market for scholarly journals.
Mark has an A.B. from Brown and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from MIT. He worked for the Department of Justice for seven years before joining Georgia Institute of Technology this Summer. This morning, he will explore with us the work that he has done on publisher mergers thus far, providing the nuances and the details that could not be conveyed in the brief report that was provided in your packets (The Impact of Publisher Mergers on Journal Prices: A Preliminary Report, September 1998, http://www.arl.org/newsltr/200/mccabe.html).
As you know, we will have time for a few questions at the end of this presentation, and Mark will join us in the afternoon for the focused discussions. It’s my pleasure to introduce Mark McCabe.
(Applause.)