As was mentioned in an earlier response, usage of content is a factor in how ACS prices access, and significant changes in usage patterns will impact costs over time. However ACS pricing limits any changes to single digits – including changes that result from increased patterns of use.

This must be a new policy, then, because in 2011 the Utah Academic Library Consortium was given a “transition plan” from ACS that imposed price increases of 10.7% every year over a five-year period. These double-digit annual increases represent the gradual phasing-in of a 50.3% price hike.

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Rick Anderson

Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections

Marriott Library, University of Utah

Desk: (801) 587-9989

Cell: (801) 721-1687

rick.anderson@utah.edu

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