I recently received a phone call from an employee of an abstracting/indexing
service informing me that Wiley has sent a letter to all for-profit and not-
for-profit secondary services stating that, in the future, they must pay full
subscription price for all journals they receive from Wiley to be included in
their A & I publications.  The only exception would be new titles which would
be provided free for the first five years.

The additional costs this A & I service would incur from Wiley alone would
triple their total budget currently allocated to pay publishers.  They are
concerned that this is a "trial ballon" and if it flies, other publishers
will follow suit.  In that event, they would have only two choices:
1) pass along these costs (mostly to libraries) in the form of higher
   subscription prices for the indexes or,
2) drop the titles from the indexes.

Have others heard of this change in policy by Wiley?
I would be interested in hearing reactions from others on this list about
this change in policy.

Thanks,
Donnice
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Donnice Cochenour                               (303) 491-1821 (voice)
Serials Librarian                                 (303) 491-1195 (fax)
Colorado State University Libraries
Ft.Collins, CO  80523         Internet: dcochenour@vines.colostate.edu
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