It was suggested to me that readers of this EDG might find the attached
of interest.
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  The following tables may be of interest to other PAM'ers. They are taken
from our serials records and include only those journals for which the
Princeton Math-Physics library has a subscription and for which we have
received 1993 renewal invoices. Some journals from very minor publishers that
cost less than $200 are not included. The no. of titles count is not accurate
because combined subscriptions are counted as one title. For some reason, we
have received only one invoice from our favorite publisher, Gordon and Breach.

   In  the subject table, Mathematics does not include computer science, which
is collected by Engineering, and physics only includes a few astronomy journals
have a separate Astronomy Library.
                                           Peter Cziffra

            COMPARISON TABLE FOR 1992 - 1993 JOURNAL PRICES BY PUBLISHERS
 2/11/93

                                No. of  Sum of       Sum of        Percent
Name                            Titles  1992 Prices  1993 Prices   Increase
---------------------------     ------  -----------  ------------  --------
 Publisher not noted             48       24,343.54    27,150.06     11.53
Academic Press                   16       10,214.05    11,439.10     11.99
Akademiai Kiado                   1          175.00       236.00     34.86
Akademie Verlag                   4        3,688.75     4,808.25     30.35
Akademiia nauk SSSR               2          540.00       658.00     21.85
Allerton Press                    9        5,462.30     6,079.70     11.30
American Astronomical             2          830.00       875.00      5.42
Society
American Institute of            25       25,865.00    29,694.00     14.80
Physics
American Mathematical            15       10,200.00    10,996.00      7.80
Society
American Statistical              2          280.00       270.00     (3.57)
Association
Birkhauser                        4        1,256.22     1,586.15     26.26
Cambridge University Press        5        1,764.00     1,963.50     11.31
CRC Press                         1          195.00       225.00     15.38
Deutsche Verlag der               1          152.00       245.00     61.18
Wissenschaften
Editions de Physique, Les         4        4,422.64     5,562.00     25.76
Elsevier                         25       47,688.16    65,244.37     36.81
Gordon and Breach                 1        1,814.00     2,680.00     47.74
Hadronic Press                    1          250.00       270.00      8.00
IEEE                              4        1,150.00     1,255.00      9.13
Institute of Physics              4       12,178.00    16,435.00     34.96
Kinokuniya                        2          500.52       518.00      3.49
Kluwer                            8        2,938.88     4,153.23     41.32
London Mathematical Society       3        1,422.00     1,386.00     (2.53)
Marcel Dekker                     6        4,105.00     4,515.00      9.99
Masson                            1          333.00       300.00     (9.91)
Nauka                             5        1,871.28     1,948.00      4.10
Optical Society of America        4        2,305.00     2,510.00      8.89
Pergamon                          9        6,671.68     7,755.26     16.24
Physika-Verlag Heidelberg         3          532.35       690.50     29.71
Plenum Press                     21       18,545.00    19,815.00      6.85
Royal Statistical Society         1           73.00        94.50     29.45
Science Press, Beijing            2          570.00       666.90     17.00
Springer Verlag                  26       23,413.27    28,014.50     19.65
Taylor and Francis                3        2,829.39     2,700.00     (4.57)
University of Chicago Press       1          380.00       420.00     10.53
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht            1           41.73        53.50     28.21
Walter de Gruyter                 1          276.00       312.25     13.13
World Scientific                  9        5,301.22     6,142.06     15.86

                                ----    -----------   ----------    -------

TOTALS                          280      224,577.98   269,666.83      20.08

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          COMPARISON TABLE BY SUBJECT OF 1992-1993 JOURNAL PRICES

         2/11/93

                     No. of
        Subject      Titles  1992 Prices       1993 Prices       Increase
        -----------  ------  -----------       ------------      --------
        Mathematics   121      68,409.35         80,389.26         17.51
        Physics       131     144,027.48        174,130.41         20.90
        Statistics     28      12,141.15         15,147.16         24.76
                     ----    -----------       ------------      ----------

        TOTALS        280     224,577.98        269,666.83         20.08