Re: Big Deal Pricing Plea

[Grace Baysinger <graceb@stanford.edu>]

Hi Ted,

Thanks for the plug about data we've compiled here.  I did have 
2003 journal catalogs so sent them to Jason.

While some publishers archive older price info on their sites, it 
would be nice if all of them did and included number of pages 
published annually for each title. For example, ACS Publications 
compiles and retains info about their journals that includes 
cost, pages, cost per page, citations, and Impact Factor. See: 
http://pubs.acs.org/4librarians/comparison/index.html#

Also sent Jason some other ideas for getting earlier info (e.g. 
search Internet Archive, contact publishers, etc).  I mentioned 
your site (http://www.journalprices.com) as 2002 version may 
contain data of interest. Sent him Stanford's URLs too.

Cheers!

Grace Baysinger
Head Librarian & Bibliographer
Swain Library of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
364 Lomita Drive, Organic Chemistry Building, Stanford, CA  94305-5081

Email:   graceb@stanford.edu
Phone:   650-725-1039   Fax:  650-725-2274
URL:     http://library.stanford.edu/depts/swain/index.html


Quoting Ted Bergstrom <tedb@econ.ucsb.edu>:

> Hi Jason,
>
> I have been traveling and away from my phone and email.  Sorry 
> about that. I got the historical economics prices by hiring an 
> undergraduate to go through old EBSCO books.  So I don't have 
> any easy way to supply information for other fields.
>
> You may be able to get some good 2003 numbers from Grace 
> Baysinger at the Stanford University library.  They have 
> recently started to collect prices from the publishers' price 
> lists and maybe if you are really lucky they will have some 
> older ones around.  Check out the following link for some 2003 
> prices.
>
> <http://www-sul.stanford.edu/scholarly_com/data/jnl_price_page.pdf>
>
> and also check
> <http://www-sul.stanford.edu/scholarly_com/data/index.html>.
> But I would recommend contacting Grace to see what else she may
> have. Good luck, Ted
>
>> Please send any electronic "list price lists" you might have
>> stored from 2001 2002 or 2003 from any of the big 4 commercial
>> publishers (Blackwell, Elsevier, Wiley or Springer). Pdf is
>> great, xls even better.
>>
>> I am working on a study to determine the benefits of 'Price
>> Caps'.  Although the average market list price increase may be
>> higher than these price caps, individual results may vary,
>> depending on the identity of an institution's subscribed titles
>> and the range of variation about the mean.  I'll be happy to
>> share the results with this list, and can look more broadly if
>> electronic pricing catalogs are available for this period.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Please Reply to jprice@alum.com
>>
>> Jason Price
>> Science & Electronic Resources Librarian
>> The Claremont Colleges, California