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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:42:32 -0600
From: Judi Shaffer <shafferj@EMAIL.UAH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Full Text Ejournals and Printing Costs (JoAnne Griffin)

At 10:06 PM 10/30/96 -0600, you wrote:
>Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:58:12 -0400
>From: JoAnne Griffin <jgriffin@OPAL.TUFTS.EDU>
>Subject: FULL TEXT EJOURNALS AND PRINTING COSTS
>
>Hello, everybody!
>
>We are moving along with full text ejournals here at Tufts and I have a
>question I hope you can help us with. How do you folks handle the costs
>involved with patrons printing articles from these journals? Do you pass
>them along? How do you determine what is a fair price? We have done
>some research in trying to estimate what the avge # of articles/pages
>per journal is -- has anyone done it differently? How has printing from
>ejournals impacted your library?
>
>Thanks for any insight you can give us.
>
>****************************
>JoAnne Griffin
>Tufts Health Sciences Library
>145 Harrison Ave.
>Boston, MA 02111
>
>jgriffin@opal.tufts.edu
>****************************
>
Here at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, we subscribe to several
sources which give us access to full text online journals.  Our public
access terminals are connected to laser printers which have venda-card
readers installed.  The cost per page is the same as the cost per page for
photocopy machines.

Hope this helps.
Judith Darby Shaffer
Librarian
Head of Serials and Document Delivery
Library, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, Alabama 35899
        (205) 890-6285 / voice
        (205) 890-6862 / fax
        shafferj@email.uah.edu

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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:50:00 -0700 (MST)
From: "Haskell, Marilyn M." <mhaskell@MSMAILGW.SDSMT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Full Text Ejournals and Printing Costs (JoAnne Griffin)

Here at SDSMT we have the terminal attached to a laser printer and the
student needing copies must check out a power cord to make copies.  They are
on their honor at reporting the number of copies and what system they were
using.  We charge 10 cents per page.  We are hoping to connect all through
the lan and set up a printer bank at the circ desc where copies can be
picked up.

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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:21:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Black <blacks@ROSNET.STROSE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Full Text EJournals and Printing Costs

For what it's worth, there is an economic theory called the Pareto
Optimum that says the greatest social benefit is achieved when a product
or service is sold at the marginal cost.  In other words, the "best"
price to sell a printout at is the cost of paper, toner, maintenance &
repair (as if that were easy to determine!).

There's also something called a Pareto Improvement, when a higher price
is charged, and the profit is used to fund a service that is important
to the patron/user/customer.

Steve Black
The College of Saint Rose
Albany, NY
blacks@rosnet.strose.edu