John,

This is a viscious cycle.  Journal prices increase; libraries cancel
subscriptions; journal prices increase more to cover the cost of publishing
with fewer subscribers; more libraries cancel; on and on and on.  Where
will it end?

Virginia

"Parang, Elizabeth" <Elizabeth.Parang@PEPPERDINE.EDU> wrote:

That is very discouraging.  I see that Personnel Psychology went from $70
to $275.  Currently it is available full text for us in ProQuest's
ABI-INFORM and EBSCOhost's Business Source Premier.  Perhaps the price
increase resulted because so many people cancelled their print
subscriptions; probably more will cancel now.  However, I wonder if that
will cause the publisher to pull the journal from the databases.  This is
extremely unfortunate at a time when many of us have shrinking periodicals
budgets.

Elizabeth Parang
Serials/Electronic Resources Librarian
Pepperdine University Libraries
Malibu, CA 90263
(310) 506-4046
elizabeth.parang@pepperdine.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Persing [mailto:persing@POBOX.UPENN.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 1:40 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Price increases for 2005 (Sandy Srivastava)

Hi Serialsters:

I just need to ask -- has anybody else noticed that some subscription
prices have skyrocketed to over 100% or higher on their invoices?  I
just wanted to confirm that everyone else has seen these as well i.e.
Harvard Law Review, Marriage and Family Review, Personnel Psychology and
I have a growing list I could put up here.

I am used to price increases of 7-10 % but this is just crazy --?  Is
anybody else experiencing higher than usual increases on subscriptions?
Are the publishers having a free for all now?

Sandy Srivastava

Sandhya D. Srivastava
Assistant Professor
Serials Librarian
Hofstra University
Axinn Library
123 Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York 11550
Telephone: (516) 463 - 5959
Fax: (516) 463 - 6438
Email: librsds@hofstra.edu <mailto:librsds@hofstra.edu>