Price Increases for 2003 (2 messages) Marcia Tuttle 19 Nov 2002 21:31 UTC
----------1 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:28:39 -0500 From: "Sandhya D. Srivastava" <LIBRSDS@Mail1.Hofstra.edu> Subject: Re: Price increases for 2003 Content-disposition: inline You may want to check and see if you asked for electronic access. Sometimes they charge more for paper + electronic, and sometimes the electronic is free. Sandy Srivastava Serials Libarian Hofstra University >>> sharman@MDHS.ORG 11/19/02 03:01PM >>> Dear Serialist wisdom; For the last few years I've been involved with serials pretty much from the cataloging end only. At my previous job I had enough experience with all the wild things that can happen to journal subscriptions to last til I retire. Some other poor soul handles all that here. However, the library director just showed me some figures that have me wondering. Our library has Ebsco as a subscription agency. Several months ago we paid an invoice that was a 10% increase over 2002 and was supposed to take care of 2003 price increases. This week we received a supplementary invoice that increased the total price of our journals by about 1/3. The library director did a spot check of various journal publisher web sites and found the institutional prices listed there were sometimes as much as half of what Ebsco was charging. I realize we're paying a fee for the subscription agency's services, but this discrepancy seems awfully large. Has anyone else had this experience with Ebsco or other vendors? __________ Susan E. Harman Associate Director for Technical Services Maryland Historical Society Library 201 W. Monument St. Baltimore, Md. 21201 410-685-3750 ext. 362 fax 410-385-0487 sharman@mdhs.org ----------2 Subject: RE: Price increases for 2003 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:08:59 -0600 From: "Skwor, Jeanette" <skworj@uwgb.edu> ***We have Faxon. They send out individual notices when titles increase substantially in price, giving us the option to cancel our subscription. ***I will say, we've gotten more of those than usual this year, and the individual price increases were often steeper than usual. ***In no case, however, am I aware of Faxon charging us more than we could get the title elsewhere, and if I ever became aware of such a thing, I would cancel it with Faxon and order it from the cheaper source. ***Vendors do not (should not) be making their money by charging us more than the going rate. They earn it through bulk orders and by having our money to gather interest until they pay the publishers. Jeanette L. Skwor Serials Dept., Cofrin Library University of Wisconsin - Green Bay 2420 Nicolet Drive Green Bay, WI 54311-7001