Re: Wiley-Blackwell Adopts Condense and Rotate Printing Process fo=

[Pippa Smart <pippa.smart@googlemail.com>]

I'm interested to hear these views as I heard nothing negative
about the ACS decision previously. I would be very interested to
hear other opinions (in favour or against) this type of
"print-reduction" - you can reply to me off-list, and if I
receive sufficient responses I will summarise for the list. Pippa

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2010/1/6  <bweil@library.berkeley.edu>:

> Yes, ACS pulled a real bait and switch. We thought we were
> purchasing a usable archival print journal and instead received
> an unarchival and unusable product. The the text was difficult to
> read and the inner margins were not suitable for binding. We
> tossed these issues and canceled our print subscription. There
> was no point in spending any money trying to bind them.
> Publishers should simply stop printing their journals rather than
> switching to this 'Condense and Rotate' nonsense. I was very
> disappointed with ACS' lack of integrity.
>
> Beth Weil
> Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library
> UC Berkeley
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> Last year (2009) during the running volume of "Analytical
>> Chemistry" the American Chemical Soc. effected the same "Condense
>> and Rotate Printing Process" as is now announced for selected
>> Wiley-Blackwell Journals. But ACS had not announced this change
>> neither in advance nor delayed. The scaling down of lettering,
>> graphs and figures impaires the readability heavily.
>>
>> Binding will obscure part of each article page.
>>
>> Those volumes are hardly suitable for archiving purposes. I guess
>> that this measure of "Condense and Rotate Printing" is a means to
>> increase profits for the publisher (when print subscription fees
>> are not reduced according to the savings) but the main purpose
>> seems to force libraries to change to an online-only subscription
>> (a back-door approach?).
>>
>> For core journals this strategy may be successful. For the
>> "besides the core" journals the "Condense and Rotate Printing"
>> will rank those journals up on individual library's list of
>> candidates for future cancellations.
>>
>> I would be glad to see publishers committing their lobbying
>> machinery to fight for shrinking VAT for science and education
>> online media instead of shrinking printed articles.
>>
>> Regards
>> Joachim Meier
>> Head of Library
>> Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
>> (http://www.ptb.de)
>> GERMANY
>> E-mail: Joachim.Meier@ptb.de