bepress 2007 Prices: Another Year of Affordable Peer-reviewed Journals

["Irene Perciali" <iperciali@bepress.com>]

Announcing bepress Prices for 2007

The Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to announce yet another 
year of affordable prices for our high-quality peer-reviewed 
journals. Each journal will sell at the same price in 2007 as in 
2006. The collection of all journals, ResearchNow Full Access, 
will be offered at a 30% discount, compared with a 20% discount 
one year ago.

*bepress Peer-Reviewed Journals

For the seventh year running, bepress will not the price of any 
journal. As a result, bepress journals continue to be priced well 
below industry averages.

Average cost per title: industry averages and bepress journals

    		Average % price change
    		2001-2006  			2006 average prices
Social Science
Journals 	47%   				$550.50
Science
Journals 	44%   				$1479.50
bepress
Journals 	-16%  				$270.00

Source for industry averages:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6321722.html.

"The success of bepress over the past seven years has proven that 
it is possible to publish high-quality and successful academic 
journals at affordable prices, without relying on author fees or 
research subsidies," said Sean O'Doherty, VP of Journal Sales at 
bepress.

*ResearchNow Full Access (RNFA)

bepress is also pleased to announce the 2007 price for its 
complete package of journals, ResearchNow Full Access: $6,500. 
While bepress added 7 new journals to RNFA during 2006 that sell 
individually for a total of $2025, the price of the package is 
only increasing by $650 over a year earlier. We have worked hard 
to keep this increase modest. This year's price represents a 30% 
discount on the collection's total value, even larger than our 
2006 discount of 20%.

RNFA includes full access to all bepress peer-reviewed journals, 
currently numbering 34.  RNFA subscribers will get access to new 
journals added during 2007 at no additional cost.

This past year, RNFA has increased its acceptance in the library 
community: to mention just a few, new subscribers during 2006 
included Arizona State, Indiana University, University of Bergen, 
Ahila University in Bahrain, University of Paris, and 21 schools 
from the Carolina consortium.

To find out more about RNFA, visit http://researchnow.bepress.com

To find out more about bepress journals, visit
http://www.bepress.com/aboutjournals.html

To find out more about the scholarly communication crisis, and 
what bepress is doing to help, visit 
http://www.bepress.com/crisis.html

For subscriptions, visit 
http://www.bepress.com/subscriptions.html For more information, 
email sales@bepress.com

*About The Berkeley Electronic Press

Founded by academics in 1999, The Berkeley Electronic Press 
("bepress") is both a publisher of peer-reviewed electronic 
journals and a software developer, having created the 
institutional repository platform marketed by ProQuest as Digital 
Commons. The Company produces tools to improve scholarly 
communication via innovative and effective means of content 
production and dissemination. Bepress has a portfolio of products 
and services that reduces the costs of and barriers to access. 
For additional information on bepress, please see: 
www.bepress.com.

Irene Perciali, Ph.D.
Journals Manager
The Berkeley Electronic Press
Phone: (510) 665-1200 Ext. 142
http://www.bepress.com <http://www.bepress.com/>

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