Re: SLACK price increases
Chandra Jackson 10 Aug 2007 18:32 UTC
Our Life Sciences selector flatly refused, saying it was completely
outrageous. We're still getting the titles in print, though.
Chandra Jackson
Serials Librarian
University of Georgia Libraries
320 S. Jackson St.
Athens, GA 30602
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From: "SERIALST Moderator" <bmaclenn@UVM.EDU>
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Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 2:14 PM
Subject: [SERIALST] SLACK price increases
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:45:17 -0700
> From: Mina Davenport <MDavenport@mail.cho.org>
> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] SLACK price increases
>
> Don't do it, we need to start protesting this by cancelling and/or taking
> our business elsewhere. This is just greed...
>
> Mina Davenport, Librarian
> Childrens Hospital Health Sciences Library
> 747 52nd Street
> Oakland CA 94609 USA
> (510) 428-3448 (p)
> (510) 601-3963 (f)
> mdavenport@mail.cho.org
>
>
> Connie Foster <connie.foster@WKU.EDU> wrote:
> Has anyone else been aghast (or should we be surprised at any pricing
> these days) of the recent SLACK, Inc. 2008 model for print and
> print+online? Based on fte our print subscription, for example, to AAOHN
> is $224 and then the online with print goes to $2,240. The rest of the
> titles follow the same giant leap pattern ($250/$2500, etc.). I'm not
> real good at % but I think this is astronomical.
>