Denise H. Rumschlag recently wrote:

<We recently received notice from the Ecological Society of America that we
<must now order "Ecological Applications" if we want to continue receiving
<another of their publications, "Ecology".  Like most libraries these days,
<we have a very tight budget for journals and we are continually culling our
<journal subscriptions... I very much resent being forced to purchase an
<unwanted title to get one we do want.

We received the same message from our periodicals vendor.  Upon checking the
latest issue of "Ecology" and finding no mention of this piggy-back, I
phoned the publisher.  I was informed that it is true that we can no longer
subscribe only to the journal we want but must pay for and house an extra
title which probably is not good enough to get its own subscribers.  It looks
as if the societies are going to be following the lead of the commercial
STM publishers.  I told the society I would contact the involved department
and suggest cancellation of the whole package.  The person representing the
society was unconcerned, no doubt feeling that like STM's they have a
captive subscriber list.
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duPont-Ball Library
Stetson University
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