ABSTRACT
The Journals of the Century Project set out to honor these serials librarians by having a panel of subject expert librarians offer their views of what they each regarded as the most influential journals in their respective fields over the last 100 years. The author segmented the multinational regional graphs along traditional language affinities, old political alliances, or the administrative status that affected individual countries historically. For our purposes, the publishing industry graphs are divided along four major sectors, as well as two special situations involving those sectors. The major sectors are the not-for-profit research or professional society, the not-for-profit university press, the not-for-profit government, and the for-profit publisher. The 'Cluster Commentaries' first explain why given chapters were grouped together. The commentaries are authored by the Project Leader. The commentaries use some no-menclatural shorthand: Kluwer, rather than Wolters-Kluwer: Elsevier, rather than Reed-Elsevier: Springer, rather than Bertelsman-Springer.
