Scholarly journal publishing in Australia

There are currently 651 active Australian journals. The oldest started in the 19th century, and the 1990s was the top decade in terms of starting new journals. Australian journals mostly belong to or are affiliated with non-profit organizations, or educational institutions. While most of the journals are self-published, the publication of 162 journals has been outsourced to international commercial publishers, with most of these linked to non-profit organizations. About 40% of Australian journals are open access and most of them do not charge author-processing charges. Half of the Australian journals (326) are indexed in Scopus and slightly less than half (301) are included in Web of Science (WoS).