American Geophysical Union Price List 2006

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Attached is text on AGU's 2006 journal prices.  As you will read, the
prices have been reduced for many of the online journals and increased for
the print to provide a more fair distribution of costs. Distributed to
this list at the request of AGU.

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AGU Rebalances Pricing for Print and Electronic Versions

Since 2002 the institutional subscribers to AGU journals have shared
equally the substantial costs of print production no matter which format
they purchased.  For equity among all subscribers, AGU rates for 2006 have
been set to better reflect the cost of the service being provided.  Only
the institutions subscribing to the print version will be charged for any
of the expense of printing, paper, and mailing.

The effect of this change in pricing is a reduction in the institutional
electronic subscription rates for most journals.  For example, the rate
for the entire JGR has gone down 10%.  Where the institutional electronic
rates for 2006 have not gone down, there has been significant growth in
the size of the journal.

The effect of the rebalancing of expense and pricing is a marked increase
in the rates for print versions.  This will be most evident in the rate
for the "print add-on," which is the discounted rate for the print version
available to subscribers to the electronic journal.  In the past,
subscription rates for print add-on covered almost none of the upfront
costs of printing.

The difference between pre-2006 rates and what is needed to cover all
costs of producing and distributing print seemed too great a one-year
adjustment in prices.  Until the full costs of print are covered,
institutional subscribers can expect to see rates for print increase more
rapidly than inflation and growth in articles.  AGU's Publications
Committee and staff foresee a time when it will no longer be economically
viable to offer print.

Prices and terms can be found at 
http://www.agu.org/pubs/Institution_Rates_2006.pdf.

Judy C. Holoviak, Deputy Executive Director and Director of Publications