Journal Pricing

[Ann Okerson <aokerson@pantheon.yale.edu>]

Margaret Landesman of the University of Utah Library sends the following
message:

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From: "MARGARET LANDESMAN" <mlandesm@library.utah.edu>
Organization: Marriott Library
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:17:32 MST7MDT
Subject: Journal pricing

Re: Jounal prices

See the Chronicle of Higher Education this week, Vincent Kiernan,
"Non-profit Journals are Cheaper than Commercial Ones."

Kiernan summarizes "Measuring Journal Cost-Effectiveness: Ten Years After
Barschall", which can be found at the url cited below.  This is a very
impressive study from the University of Wisconsin.

It is argued by some that publishers will behave in a significatly
different manner with regard to pricing in the electronic environment -
but I can't myself see any reason why this should be so.

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The following url will take you to Wisconsin's article 
about their price per character study of physics, 
economics, and neuroscience journals.

http://www.library.wisc.edu/projects/glsdo/cost.html


Margaret Landesman
Head, Collection Development
Marriott Library
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0860
phone: (801) 581-7741
fax: (801) 585-3464
e-mail: mlandesm@library.utah.edu