Pre-payment of subscriptions -- Jeanette Skwor SERIALST Moderator 28 Aug 2003 15:46 UTC

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:17:52 -0500
From: "Skwor, Jeanette" <skworj@uwgb.edu>
Subject: Pre-payment of subscriptions

John Lucas wrote:

We try to take advantage of any early renewal and prepayments.
We use the money we get back for whatever database, journal,
etc. that it is needed for.

which came in the middle of me wondering how much we actually save by
pre-paying when the cost of re-paying to come up to the actual cost is
figured in.  It seems to me we are entering every title twice.  Has anyone
done any study of this?

TIA,

Jeanette L. Skwor
Cofrin Library, Serials Dept.
University of WI - Green Bay
2420 Nicolet Drive
Green Bay, WI 54311-7001
(920) 465-2670