Tetrahedron Letters, Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron are all very expensive
titles -- even for institutions. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to
me, that the publisher can give a professor an individual rate of less
than $500 (which if you read their website, it says it covers costs
only) and then charge over $10,000 for an institution to receive the
same journal. Seems to me that if it is only costing the publisher less
than $500, that having the institutional price over $10,000 is one heck
of a markup. We used to subscribe to all three of these and had to cut
them one by one when budgets were not keeping up with the increases in
serials pricing. I realize that these journals are considered cutting
edge research, but I don't think the pricing structure is reasonable at
all.

Debra Ham
Library Specialist, Serials
Reinert Alumni Memorial Library
Creighton University
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178

dldham@creighton.edu

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[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of John Lucas
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 8:47 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Elsevier 'associated' subscriptions -John Lucas

I just have two quick questions about the Associated Subscriptions.

Does anyone know of other Elsevier titles besides Tetrahedron?

I have looked at 2 other Elsevier 'biggies'    BBA   and Brain Research
and neither have Associated Subscriptions information.

Are we 'blowing' this situation out of proportion?

Just My Two Cents,

John Lucas

Serials Librarian
University of Mississippi Medical Center 2500 North State St Jackson, MS
39216-4505

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