Re: News Release: Project Transfer:price rises

["MaryJoan Crowley" <maryjoan.crowley@uniroma1.it>]

Regarding tranfer and prices, here is an interesting example of 
how prices can change on transfer.

As of 2007 the journal,  Earthquake engineering and engineering vibration
(ISSN: 1671-3664 (print version) ISSN: 1993-503X (electronic 
version))

passed from its previous publishing body, Multidisciplinary 
Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, at a list price in 
2005 of US$80, according to Ulrich's, over to Springer. The 
journal will now cost the library over ?650.

While the journal is now published quarterly rather than 
semi-annually as before, this is still quite a rise.

Mary Joan Crowley
CIBER
Biblioteca Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica
Via Eudossiana, 18
00184 Roma. Italy.
Phone: 0644585387
maryjoan.crowley@uniroma1.it

----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Renison" <neil.renison@jcu.edu.au>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: News Release: Project Transfer

> An assumption here is that The Code of Transfer is going to 
> make a significant difference to the frequency of transfers. 
> Unlikely and perhaps unprovable.  An increase in transfers 
> alone won't be sufficient proof.
>
> There is nothing new about journals changing publisher and the 
> drivers for accelerated change are already out there.  What the 
> code can do is eliminate or reduce the worst effects of change 
> of publisher on access to the literature in a online 
> environment. There is a good chance that the UKSG Working 
> Group's efforts will achieve just that.
>
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> Neil Renison - Librarian (Acquisitions Services)
> Information Resources
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>
> Joseph J. Esposito wrote:
>
> > Of course.  But if a price increase were the solution to sustainability,
> > then a journal could have raised prices without a transfer.
> >
> > The Code of Transfer is not a demon, nor is it an angel.  It is, like the
> > internal combustion engine, a fascinating innovation whose full
> > implications may not be understood for some time.  If I were representing
> > a large publisher, I would say, Go for it! If I were representing a small
> > publisher, I would say, Uh, oh! If I were an author, I would say, Who
> > cares? And if I were a librarian, I would ask, Why is it that just about
> > every innovation (your list here) that is developed to help me winds up
> > deepening my budgetary mess and somehow or other lines the pockets of the
> > large commercial publishers?
> >
> > Joe Esposito