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

["Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>]

> Rick, we have 6000 fte and 30,000 journals. At $0.50 per fte, if they all
> charged at that rate, our cost for journals would be $90 Million.  (For
> perspective, our current total acquisition budget is about $10 Million.)

I'm losing the thread here.  Is your argument that you can't afford to buy
online access to 30,000 journals at 50 cents per FTE?  That's obviously
true, but what does it have to do with the appropriateness of personal
subscribers to a journal getting an enhanced service?

> You would probably say only the good journals should charge at this rate.

No, I don't tell publishers what to charge.  I only tell them whether we
think that what they're offering is worth it.


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