RE: Marketplace Story: Publicly funded research for a price

["Aken, Stephanie" <saken@email.uky.edu>]

Our JAMA site license is indeed "in the thousands of dollars," 
although we are a medium sized institution with a medical school, 
but we had to upgrade when the free online with print was 
recently limited to a single user.

Stephanie Nicely Aken
Electronic Resources Coordinator
University of Kentucky Libraries
William T. Young Library
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY  40506-0456
saken@email.uky.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Kille
Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 10:52 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Marketplace Story: Publicly funded research for a price

Huh, when I look at JAMA's subscription info, it says:

"Pricing proposals are calculated based on relevant full-time 
employees of the institution."

I can easily imagine the cost going into the thousands of dollars 
for a large institution. I can easily imagine being wrong, too, 
though.

Mark Kille

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Nawin Gupta
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 4:28 PM
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Subject: RE: Marketplace Story: Publicly funded research for a price

Furthermore, they have the facts wrong about cost of a JAMA
subscription. It is still rather affordable for a weekly
publication at $125 for online and $165 for print+online for a
year, not "thousands of dollars."  Even an institutional
subscription for print+online is only $590.

Nawin Gupta