Our Annual Renewal List also quotes a price of $161.  However, the invoice we received from EBSCO lists a charge of $299.  I do think EBSCO might send alerts under such circumstances.  Harrassowitz does for price increases that exceed 30%.  IW

I. Woodward
Serials Office
Colgate University Libraries
13 Oak Drive
Hamilton, N.Y. 13346
USA
Ph:  315-228-7306
Fax: 315-228-7934
iwoodward@mail.colgate.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcia Tuttle [mailto:tuttle@EMAIL.UNC.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:56 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Price Increases for 2003 (2 messages)

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Subject: Re: History
From: HAIMOVSKY@FORDHAM.EDU
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:19:32 -0500

I checked my Ebsco renewal list and the price for HISTORY is still $161.00 for 2003. Could it be just a mistake on your list?

Kira Haimovsky
Fordham

-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy Crow [mailto:crowna@QUINCY.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:20 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: History

I am going through my EBSCO renewal list and found that History: A Journal of the History Association has raised its subscription price from $161 to $299 per year. I emailed Judy Cornish,marketing manager for journals at jcornish@blackwellpublishers.co.uk
and told her it was absurd.   I'm waiting for her reply.  Maybe she should
hear from everyone!

Nancy Crow, Assistant Librarian
Serials/Interlibrary Loan
Quincy University
1800 College Ave.
Quincy, IL  62301-2699

217-228-5348 (voice); 217-228-5354 (fax)
crowna@quincy.edu
http://www.quincy.edu/library/

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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 06:31:14 -0800
From: Beverly Butler <bbutler@library.ca.gov>
Subject: Re: History

Our Faxon/Dawson/Rowe/Divine agent always provides special notice of price increases over a certain dollar amount.  I think it was written into the contract.  We have the right to cancel at that point if we choose.

Beverly Butler
California State Library

At 01:27 PM 11/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I noticed this, too, as I went through our 2003 renewal invoice.  I
>have always estimated  a 13% increase, plus our service charge.  I
>cancel or add subscriptions accordingly and as our budget allows.
>However, this year it seemed like an unusually high number of journals
>had a price increase of over 50%.
>
>Budget dollars are even tighter this year.  Consequently, I asked my
>EBSCO sales rep, who happened to visit yesterday, to request a renewal
>confirmation from the library for any price increase over 30%.  They
>did notify me of one increase (Biochemistry) and asked if we still
>wanted to renew, so it's not like they can't do this.  I consider this
>the "service" part of the service charge we are paying.  Let them earn
>it if they want our business!
>
>Martha Spicuzza
>Technical Services Librarian/Serials
>Hillsdale College Mossey Library
>517-437-7341 ext. 2405