235.1 FROM THE EDITOR, Marcia Tuttle
235.2 SOME COMMENTS ABOUT THE GORDON & BREACH JOURNAL, MODERN
GEOLOGY, David Stern
235.3 JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY SUBSCRIPTION RATE TO
INCREASE, Press release
235.4 IJMMS SUBSCRIPTION RATE SLASHED FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A
ROW, Ahmed Hindawi
235.5 REAL COST OF HAWORTH PRESS JOURNALS, Barbara Via
235.1 FROM THE EDITOR
Marcia Tuttle, tuttle@email.unc.edu
Old-time subscribers to this newsletter will realize that it has been a long time -- over two months -- since they received an issue. New subscribers, and there are many, may wonder why they have never received an issue. My frustration and anger lead me to tell you why, specifically. The reason is that, after one week of my trying unsuccessfully to get through to national customer service, Gateway Country Store in Cary NC received and kept my computer for more than five and a half weeks "waiting for parts." The good news, I guess, is that I have something close to a new computer -- but I hope nothing ever goes wrong with it! The pricing newsletter is open for business again, and I hope you will keep the editorial contributions coming. Thank you for your patience.
235.2 SOME COMMENTS ABOUT THE GORDON & BREACH
JOURNAL, MODERN GEOLOGY
David Stern, Director of Science Libraries and Information Services, Yale
University, david.e.stern@yale.edu
This has always been a pricey title, and there have been long delays in publication. Vols. 22 and 23 have just arrived. They comprise Parts I and II, respectively, of a symposium on "The Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation" held in Denver in 1994. Each volume (part) is about 535 pages long. So far as I can tell, the quality of the work represented is reliable. What remains unclear is why an 1100-page symposium proceedings should cost almost $2200. It surely would not, had it been issued as a monograph.
I suggest librarians continue to pressure publishers _and authors_ to stop this outrageous behavior before their greed completely destroys the viable delivery of scientific information.
235.3 JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY SUBSCRIPTION RATE TO
INCREASE
Press release from Allen Press, submitted by Trish Dowd, tdowd@allenpress.com
The 2000 subscription price for the Journal of Mammalogy, the official publication of the American Society of Mammalogists, will increase from $45 per year to $170 per year. Because of this dramatic price increase, we felt it was necessary to detail the circumstances which have forced our Society into this unhappy situation.
For the last 7 years, the institutional subscription price of the Journal of Mammalogy has remained at a remarkably low price, $45, while paper, labor, and postal prices have risen drastically. Furthermore, the number of pages published has increased by nearly 10%.
This $45 price established the Journal of Mammalogy as one of the lowest priced, highest quality publications available in this field. The American Society of Mammalogists has subsidized this below-cost price for essentially its entire history of publication to assist libraries in disseminating the Journal of Mammalogy and the quality research it contains.
Due to continually increasing paper, labor and postal costs in conjunction with the consistently low subscription price, the American Society of Mammalogists can no longer underwrite this subscription price and must bring the price in line with current market standards. Fortunately, the rate will stabilize and remain at $170 through the year 2002.
We recognize that because the price has remained constant for 7 years, this increase appears even more substantial. However, 67% of similar journals cost more than the Journal of Mammalogy even with this higher subscription rate.
The Journal of Mammalogy publishes current scientific research discussing the most dynamic and charismatic group of animals. Perhaps this has led to the Journal of Mammalogy ranking within the top 15% based on Total Cites of Zoology journals listed by the ISI Journal Citation Reports, 1997 Science Edition.
In addition, the Journal of Mammalogy ranks within the top quarter of Zoology journals listed, based on Impact Factor as calculated by ISI. The Journal of Mammalogy is also indexed in Biological Abstracts and Zoological Record.
The Journal of Mammalogy accepts only 25% of all submitted manuscripts. Insistent on our high standards, we continue to publish an impressive amount of quality articles (123 papers last year). The last two volumes of the Journal of Mammalogy have contained over 1300 pages of cutting edge research.
We are dedicated to promoting interest in mammals throughout the world through research, education, and communication among scientists and the general public. We recognize the imperative role that libraries play in achieving this goal.
Please continue to assist the American Society of Mammalogists in the dissemination of its highly cited, peer recognized publication, the Journal of Mammalogy.
Please feel free to contact David Stadler, our Association Manager, with any additional questions, (800) 627-0629, ext. 215, mamm@allenpress.com.
O. J. Reichman
President
American Society of Mammalogists
235.4 IJMMS PER-PAGE SUBSCRIPTION RATE SLASHED FOR THE
SECOND YEAR IN A ROW
Ahmed Hindawi, Director, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, ahmed@hindawi.com
Hindawi Publishing Corporation announces a per-page subscription rate reduction of its mathematical journal International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (IJMMS), ISSN 0161-1712, for year 2000 by 9%.
In 1998, the International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences was published in 4 issues for a total of 832 pages. The library subscription rate for year 1998 was USD 110. In 1999, Hindawi Publishing Corporation took over the publication of IJMMS and published 902 pages with a subscription rate of USD 110. This represented per-page price reduction of 8%. Hindawi is pleased to announce that the IJMMS will be a biweekly journal starting from January 2000. IJMMS will be published in 24 issues of 80 pages each for a total of 1920 pages, along with 60 pages of author indices. The year 2000 subscription rate is USD 220, which represents another per-page price reduction of 9%.
For more information, please visit Hindawi Publishing Corporation web site http://www.hindawi.com or the International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences site http://ijmms.hindawi.com
235.5 HAWORTH PRESS JOURNALS
Barbara Via, Information Science Bibliographer, SUNY at Albany, bv848@cnsvax.Albany.edu
[Received March 9, 1999; updated July 13, 1999.]
I want to call attention to a very clever thing that Haworth Press seems to be doing with their pricing. In particular, I have noticed this scheme with the journal, Serials Librarian, though we subscribe to many, many of their publications.
The advertised price "per volume" as listed in the most recent [as of March 1999] issue of Library Literature, is $160.00. Sounds reasonable enough, but what Haworth is doing is issuing two and sometimes three volumes in a year and billing for those volumes within the calendar year so that in reality a library is paying SEVERAL hundreds of dollars for this title.
Here's our invoice record for Serials Librarian for recent volumes:
v. 33-34 (1998) $293.72
v. 35-36 (vol. 35 no. 1 says 1998 on it and we
were billed $335.68 by Faxon for these two volumes
in March of 1998)
I am wondering if others have complained about Haworth's methods. What we got for vol. 33-34 at a price of $293.72 was two issues for vol. 33 (Part 1 and Part 2 of theme on E-Serials) and 2 issues for vol. 34 (part 1 and part 2 of the NASIG proceedings for 1997).
Seems a large amount of money, $293.72, for what we got.
A contributing problem, seems to be that Faxon bills us way in advance of publication, invoices from Faxon go all the way through vol. 37-38, for which they have billed us $370.93 even though we have not even rec'd vol. 35-36 yet.
I have copied from Haworth's website [as of July 13, 1999], some of the prices they charge and have highlighted the fact that they often price "per volume" and then issue two volumes per year. Thus, The Reference Librarian ends up costing a library $400/year for 4 issues and Cataloging and Classification Quarterly nearly that much.
The Reference Librarian: ISSN: 0276-3877;
Biannual (2 issues per vol/2 vols per year)
Nos. 63/64, Fall 1998
Nos. 65/66, Spring 1999
Subscription rates (per volume):
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Individuals |
Institutions |
Libraries |
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US |
$60.00 |
$200.00 |
$200.00 |
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Print plus ejournal |
$66.00 |
$220.00 |
$220.00 |
Serials Librarian: ISSN 0361-526X; Quarterly (4
issues per vol/2 vols per year)
Volume 36, No. 1, Spring 1999
Volume 37, No. 1, Fall 1999
Subscription rates (per volume):
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Individuals |
Institutions |
Libraries |
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US |
$45.00 |
$160.00 |
$180.00 |
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Print plus ejournal |
$50.00 |
$176.00 |
$198.00 |
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly: ISSN: 0163-9374;
Quarterly (4 issues per vol/2 vols per year).
Volume 27, No.1, Fall 1998
Volume 28, No.1, Spring 1999
Subscription rates (per volume):
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Individuals |
Institutions |
Libraries |
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US |
$40.00 |
$185.00 |
$185.00 |
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Print plus e-journal |
$44.00 |
$204.00 |
$204.00 |
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