107.2 FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC PERIODICALS PRICE INDEX FOR CANADA 1994, Keith Guyitt
107.3 SWETS REPORT ON RECEIPT OF 1994 SUBSCRIPTION PRICES, Han Nouwen
CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE is edited and published by Marilyn Geller.
107.2 FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC PERIODICALS PRICE INDEX FOR CANADA 1994
Keith Guyitt, Faxon Canada, keith@faxon.ca.
For the fourth consecutive year, Faxon Canada and the School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, are working together to produce a periodical price index. The 1994 index is presently in preparation. The first two indexes were published in the _Canadian Library Journal_. The third index appeared in the _Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science_. The articles have been authored by students in the Master of Library and Information Science program at the School. The raw data is supplied from the Faxon Canada serials database.
Preliminary figures from the 1994 Index data were made available for fiscal planning to Faxon Canada clients.
Prices for 1994 subscriptions ordered by Canadian libraries rose 10.52%, increasing the average cost of one subscription in Canadian dollars from $332.13 to $367.07. Mathematics and Computer Science titles showed the greatest increase (13.79%) of all journals ordered.
A review of overall increases in the subscription costs of titles published by country showed the following results:
Country % increase '94 over '93
Canada 5.85
France 6.02
Germany 4.74
Japan 21.72
Netherlands 9.63
United Kingdom 10.91
United States 11.57
For journals published in Canada, Science and Technology titles
continued to show the greatest percentage increase at 7.29% For
further information, contact Keith Guyitt, Faxon Canada --
KEITH@FAXON.CA
The mailbox is: tuttle@gibbs.oit.unc.edu.
From Elliott Lieb, Princeton University, lieb@math.Princeton.EDU:
Librarians might be interested to know what can be done pricewise if there are serious editors and serious publishers who are determined to keep prices down.
International Press (Hong Kong, Cambridge Mass) just came out with a math journal called MRL (Math Research Letters). It will have six issues per year (about 120 pages/issue so far). Cost: $85 to individuals, $130 to libraries per year.
Note also that they allow authors to keep copyright. This is stated on the front cover. They also give 50 free reprints. There are no page charges.
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From Timothy Cullen, Blackwell Publishers Journals Marketing Coordinator:
I want to alert serials librarians to a recent publishing change in _Microcomputers in Civil Engineering_ (ISSN: 0885-9507).
It had been announced last fall by Elsevier that the journal would merge with another journal and be published in 1994 as _Advances in Engineering Software_.
This is not the case. Volume 9, 1994 of _Microcomputers in Civil Engineering_ will be published in 6 issues.
Anyone requiring further information can contact Blackwell Publishers in Cambridge, MA at 1-800-835-6770 or by fax at (617) 547-0789.
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