Lisa,

Perhaps the publisher will follow the time-honored practice, with which
most of us are no doubt familiar,  (developed to perfection by drug
dealers), of providing the goods free to customers for a time, in hopes
of creating a dependency.  In this scenario, the new journal is included
"free" with your subscription to some other journal for a year or two,
in hopes that you will make it available to your users, and that they
will become habituated to it.  Then comes the announcement that the new
journal will cease being included in the joint subscription, and will
become an independent journal, to which you will be invited to subscribe
at a suitably breathtaking price.  If the ploy has worked, your users
are hooked, and you have no choice but to enter a subscription.

Best regards,
~Bill Warren
___________________________
William Warren
Acquisitions Department
Middlebury College Library
110 Storrs Avenue
Middlebury, VT 05753 USA

fax:  (802) 443-5698
phone:  (802) 443-5489
e-mail:  wwarren@middlebury.edu

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Blackwell, Lisa
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:21 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] New journal announcement

So, do you think we'll continue to receive these without paying the
extra? We subscribe to both of those pubs also but since this is the
time of year to receive samples issues (in hopes that we will purchase)
I'm not convinced we'll see more free issues.
Lisa

Lisa S. Blackwell, MLS

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
What is essential is invisible to the eye."
~The Little Prince

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Linda Harding
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:11 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] New journal announcement

We also received this inaugural issue yesterday.  It "comes with" our
subscription to Child Devlopment for which we paid $493.00 (print +
online).
That subscription also includes Monographs of the Society for Research
in
Child Development.

Linda Harding
Periodicals Assistant
Elmhurst College Library
190 Prospect Ave.
Elmhurst, IL 60126

----- Original Message -----
From: "Blackwell, Lisa" <Lisa.Blackwell@NATIONWIDECHILDRENS.ORG>
To: <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] New journal announcement

> Apologies for cross-posting...
> I know it's not Friday yet but this has to be shared.
> We just received a sample issue (v.1no.1) of a new publication called
> "Child Development Perspectives." The publisher also publishes 2
> sister publications that we subscribe to as core collection titles. I
> kid you not, this issue is 1/8in in width (63 pages.) It is going to
> be published biannually. The price? $543 (with "premium online
> subscription rates available including online access from present back

> to 1997 where
> available") I almost fell out of my chair laughing...
> Lisa
>
>
> Lisa S. Blackwell, MLS
> Serials/Research Librarian
> Nationwide Children's Hospital
> Medical Library ED244
> 700 Children's Drive
> Columbus, Ohio 43205
> ph: (614) 722-3206
> fax: (614) 722-3205