Is there any chance this was a calculation error somewhere on Slack's part?

Dolores Coyle
Supervisor Serials Acquisitions
Paley Library 017-00
1210 W. Berks Street
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
voice: 215-204-1359
fax: 215-204-8550
email: dcoyle@temple.edu

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Hamaker, Charles
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:44 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] SLACK price increases

It sort of takes your breath away. I don't know anything comparable.
Here's the quote for the 4 titles we subscribe to. I've included a link
to the editorial boards in case someone has them on their campus.
Here's our quote for 2008 for FTE of 10,001-20,000 for print or print
plus online.

AAOHN JOURNAL

Editorial board listed at:

http://www.aaohnjournal.com/about.asp

Print: $224

Print Plus Online: $2240

JOURNAL OF CONTINUING   EDUCATION IN NURSING

Editorial board listed at:

http://www.jcenonline.com/about.asp

Print: $319

Print Plus Online: $3190

JOURNAL OF GERONTOLOGICAL   NURSING

Print: $205

Print Plus Online: $2050

JOURNAL OF NURSING EDUCATION

Editorial board listed at:

http://www.journalofnursingeducation.com/about.asp

Print: $319

Print Plus Online: $3190

Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825

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[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Connie Foster
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 9:43 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] SLACK price increases

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.
And the sad thing is, like so many of these offers for free online with
login, we just set up that mechanism for 2007, only to have that pulled
away. Our health sciences librarian is pretty conscientious about
following these offers and we try to accommodate when possible, but my
basic instinct says not to do it.
Just need company in my misery.
Connie Foster

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