[Original posting on this topic appeared in COLLDV-L no. 1777 and was
reproduced with Response #1 in COLLDV-L no. 1806.]
(2)----------------------------------------------------------------
From: Susan Peters <libslp_at_emory.edu>
I'd like to thank the poster who gave us the information of the MCB
University Press prices. It turns out that EU owned _Collection Building_
but when I asked our selectors, it turned out absolutely no one was ever
looking at it! After we examined it, we decided it wasn't worth the money
and we've cancelled it. So, thanks for saving us several hundred bucks
and some badly needed shelf space.
Susan L. Peters, Ph.D.
Coordinator for Language and Literature
Emory University, Woodruff Library
Department of Collection Management
(404) 727-0117
libslp_at_unix.cc.emory.edu
(3)----------------------------------------------------------------
From: dcarner_at_mail.utexas.edu (Dorothy Carner)
Last year I cancelled a journal called Work Study. It had increased in
price from $170 in 1991 to $798 in 1996. It was not a heavily used journal
and the $100 + per year inflation costs seemed too excessive to keep. This
year the same journal costs $1399. Granted, electronic access and their
Emerald CD archive sounds wonderful, but no human resource journal is worth
$1399. This is very much in line with what Elsevier and others are doing.
We simply can not afford to purchase journals at a 60% yearly inflation
rate. What's more is, I refuse to be held hostage to these ridiculous
prices. Everytime I receive a mailing from MCB touting a "free"
subscription for a short period of time, I simply throw it away.
Dorothy Carner
(4)----------------------------------------------------------------
From: Trix Bakker <Trix.Bakker_at_KONBIB.NL>
In the Netherlands we also have this experience with MCB
journals. Thanks to the Dutch discussion list for librarians
NEDBIB-L it became clear that the general policy to this kind of
practices is: cancel the MCB journals. Many Dutch academic
libraries in fact did this, included my library.
Trix Bakker
Coordinator Collection Development
Koninklijke Bibliotheek / National Library of the Netherlands
trix.bakker_at_konbib.nl
(5)----------------------------------------------------------------
From: Sharon Siegler <sls7_at_Lehigh.EDU>
MCB journals were discussed extensively last winter in the NEWSLETTER ON
SERIALS PRICING ISSUES. You may want to read the archives
(http://www.lib.unc.edu/prices/); issues 195,196,198, and 202 are the
relevant ones.
Sharon Siegler Engineering Librarian
sls7_at_lehigh.edu Lehigh University Information Resources
610-758-3068 (voice) Fairchild/Martindale 8B
610-758-4983 (fax) Bethlehem, PA 18015
(6)----------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 98 11:51:46 CDT
Reply-To: RFLEAVYM_at_wkyuvm.wku.edu
Sender: owner-colldv-l_at_usc.edu
Precedence: first-class
From: marvin leavy <RFLEAVYM_at_wkyuvm.wku.edu>
MCB's pricing upsurge extends to titles it has always published. Take
marketing, for example. The 1997 cost for International Journal of
Retail and distribution Managment was $2,749. In 1998, it jumped some
67%, to $4,649.21 (includes Faxon's surcharge).
Marv Leavy, Coordinator
Collection Development
Western Kentucky University Libraries
Received on Wed Jul 29 1998 - 17:40:01 EDT