Article by Donnice Cochenour stated:

>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.

At present, your subscription payment to Wiley subsidizes the 'free'
subscription to the A&I publisher. Why shouldn't the A&I publisher
carry his/her own weight in the marketplace? Won't Wiley have to raise
subscription prices more if this particular 'cost' cannot be cut?

This attempt by the A&I people to paint Wiley as some sort of villian
for asking to be compensated for the use of their journals is pretty
tacky.

>Have others heard of this change in policy by Wiley?

This has been a policy of a number of publishers.

Al Henderson Internet: 70244.1532@compuserve.com