RE: National Online: Nature and Others... (like SCIENCE)

[David Goodman <dgoodman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>]

Rick, you have it backwards. The library, who pays the most (on the order
of several thousand dollars, gets the version without the in-press
articles. The individual subscriber, who pays much less, gets the version
with the in-press articles.


David Goodman, Princeton University Biology Library				
dgoodman@princeton.edu            609-258-3235

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Rick Anderson wrote:

> > Science, without making public announcement, has just added
> > pre-publication versions of some of its key articles available
> > electronically, but only to individual, not institutional, subscribers.
> > For the "Current Trends" group of journals now owned by Elsevier, only the
> > most expensive of the several options for electronic access gives the
> > whole publication, instead of only the signed review articles.
> 
> David, it sounds to me like the "discrimination" you're talking about here
> is the kind you'd normally see from any company that has high-paying and
> low-paying customers.  Pay more when you fly, and you get a bigger seat
> and better food.  Pay more for a journal (as an individual subscriber) and
> you get more content; pay less (as a member of an institution) and you get
> less. We institutional subscribers might not find a particular deal
> acceptable (e.g. Nature), but what's inherently unfair about the basic
> principle of paying a higher price for more content?
> 
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