Libraries have been both cash
cows and captive audiences for so many decades that many publishers just assume
we will continue to pay regardless of what they do. And as long as we
continue to do just that what is there to make them change? The academic
research/publication system is broken, but I sure don’t know how it can
be fixed or replaced as long as the powerful forces that have profited from it
for so long remain in place.
My 2 cents’ worth. Off
to yet another committee meeting.
Michael
W. Michael Bell
Assistant Dean and Head,
Materials Processing
Lupton Library
University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga
423-425-2670
mike-bell@utc.edu
From: SERIALST: Serials
in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Sally
Krash
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 11:04 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] ECS journals
Hello all,
Today I received the AIP Journals 2010 price bulletin. In it
I discovered that the Electrochemical Society has decided that corporate
libraries need to pay more than twice as much as academic libraries. In the
past, there was only one price. So, if we were to continue our subscription to
the ECS Digital Library, which we are not, we would face a 115% price increase.
We may have to subscribe to the Journal of the ECS, which still be a 75% price
increase over what we paid for the whole library last year.
Does the ECS not understand that everyone in the library
community is having to cut back in this economy, and a 115% price increase just
isn’t going to cut it?
Sally Krash
Library Group Leader
Southwest Research Institute
210.522.3097