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Subject: Re: Elsevier Trends Journals -- Frank Norman
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:35:29 -0600
From: "Hernandez, Sandra" <SHernand@trinity.edu>

We also subscribe to a number of the Elsevier "Trends" journals. I just
spoke with Elsevier and they informed me that we wouldn't receive the
2000
or 2001  "Library compendium" volumes. You're correct a quick look at
the
pricing for 2000 and for 2001 shows that the prices for these journals
are
not being reduced to compensate for this loss.  In fact, our prices
increased in 2001 despite the fact that we won't be receiving a "Library
compendium" volume.

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Sandra Hernandez
Trinity University Library
Senior Acq. Asst. for Subscriptions/Standing Orders
Phone:  (210) 999-8171 or Fax:  (210) 999-8021
E-mail:  shernand@trinity.edu

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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:17:11 +0000
From: Frank Norman <fnorman@NIMR.MRC.AC.UK>
Subject: Elsevier Trends Journals

We subscribe to a number of the Elsevier "Trends" journals (Trends
in Neurosciences, Trends in Biochemical Sciences etc).  The
institutional subscription prices for these journals are set at higher
levels than the personal subscription but this is offset by the
inclusion of an annual "Library Compendium" volume at the end of
the year.  This is a bound volume containing all the past year's
issues.

We've just been notified by our subscription agents that the Library
Compendium volumes are ceasing publication after Dec 2000.  A
quick look at the pricing for 2000 and for 2001 shows that the
prices for these journals are not being reduced to compensate for
this loss.  It rather appears to be a sleight of hand price increase,
compounded by the lack of any advance information about the
change from the publisher.

I suppose one shouldn't be surprised, but it is disappointing to see
this kind of thing still.

Frank Norman            National Institute for Medical Research
Librarian               The Ridgeway, Mill Hill
                        London NW7 1AA,  UK
tel 020 8 913 8629      email fnorman@nimr.mrc.ac.uk
fax 020 8 913 8534      http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/personal/Frank