Newsletter on Serial Pricing Issues 007 (September 3, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/nspi/nspi-ns007 Archive PRICES: file prices.ns7, part 1/1, size 30562 bytes: ------------------------------ Cut here ------------------------------ ISSN: 1046-3410 NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES NS NUMBER 7 - September 3, 1991 Editor: Marcia Tuttle CONTENTS FROM THE EDITOR, Marcia Tuttle ARL E-PUB DIRECTORY AVAILABLE, Association of Research Libraries SPRINGER-VERLAG 1992 JOURNAL PRICES, Maggie Rioux SUBSCRIPTIONS VS DOCUMENT DELIVERY, Fred Friend MECKLER PUBLISHING ANNOUNCEMENTS, Mary Ellen Cisero THOUGHTS ON ELECTRONIC INDEXING, Norman Stevens NASIG CALL FOR PAPERS, Lisa Peterson FEATHER RIVER INSTITUTE CALL FOR PAPERS, Tom Leonhardt WHY IT'S FREE IF YOU QUALIFY, Peter Graham GHERMAN ARTICLE IN , David Perry and Susan Lewis PUBLIC-ACCESS COMPUTER SYSTEMS REVIEW: SPECIAL ISSUE ON NETWORK-BASED SERIALS, Charles Bailey FROM THE EDITOR Marcia Tuttle, TUTTLE@UNC.BITNET. Housekeeping: With the last issue we had what seems to be our quarter- ly distribution fiasco. Our computer center was upgrading its soft- ware, and things did not go smoothly. At the same time I happened to send out an issue of the newsletter. Matter of fact, I sent it out twice. I know that some subscribers got more than one copy and some (including me) got none. I also sent a message asking anyone who did not get a copy of NS 6 to let me know. That message may not have gone out. At any rate, I apologize for multiple (or no) copies of the last issue. I have been assured once again that our problems here are re- solved. If you did not get a copy of NS 6, please let me know, and I'll send you one. In May at the Society for Scholarly Publishing conference I met Susan Lewis from the Pennsylvania State University Press. She subscribes to this newsletter and forwards each issue to university press colleagues on a network called AAUPTALK. The item by Martha Kellar in the last issue resulted from her seeing the newsletter on AAUPTALK. Occasional- ly I am copied for an exchange of messages on that network, and Sue Lewis assures me that it is all right to use those in the newsletter. The exchange between Sue and David Perry appears in this issue. I appreciate Sue's expanding both our readership and our editorial con- tent in this way. ARL E-PUB DIRECTORY AVAILABLE Association of Research Libraries press release, August 5, 1991. Association of Research Libraries 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 For Further Information Contact: Ann Okerson ARLHQ@UMDC.Bitnet (202) 232-2466 (voice) (202) 462-7849 (fax) ARL Directory Meets Need for Catalog of Electronic Publications Responding to the library and academic communities' increasing use of and interest in the burgeoning number of electronic publications, the Association of Research Libraries has published: DIRECTORY OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS, NEWSLETTERS, AND ACADEMIC DISCUSSION LISTS, Compiled by Michael Strangelove and Diane Kovacs; Edited by Ann Okerson. Washington DC. First Edition, July 1991. ISSN: 1057-1337. CHOICE OF FORMATS: Print-on-paper, 180 pages, 8.5 x 11 inch size; 3.5" diskette, DOS WordPerfect; 3.5" diskette, Microsoft Word (Macintosh); Hypertext version in preparation by Peter Scott, University of Sas- katchewan. The ARL directory is derived from widely accessible networked files maintained by Strangelove and Kovacs. The directory will point to these as the principal, continuously updated, and free-of-charge sour- ces for accessing such materials. PRICING: All orders must be PREPAID $10.00 to ARL members $20.00 to non-ARL members $25.00 US, non-U.S. price, surface mail $30.00 US, non-U.S. price, air mail Quantity: non-members receive a 10 percent discount for orders of more than 5 copies. NOTE: The ARL has only 119 institutional member libraries that qualify for the $10 subsidized price. Unfortunately, we have had to return a great number of orders sent from others -- this delays fulfillment. We thank you for assuring in advance that the amount you send is correct. The Association of Research Libraries is a not-for-profit organization representing 119 research libraries in the United States and Canada. Its mission is to identify and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL programs and services promote equitable access to, and effective use of recorded knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and community service. These programs include annual statistical pub- lications, federal relations and information policy, and enhancing access to scholarly information resources through telecommunications, collection development, preservation, and bibliographic control. The following order form is provided for your convenience. Feel free to print it and attach it to your check or money order, payable to ARL. US Dollars only. ALL ORDERS MUST BE PREPAID. Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing Association of Research Libraries 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 USA Name____________________________________________ Address___________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Number of Copies _________ Amount Enclosed _____________ THANK YOU FOR YOUR ORDER AND INTEREST IN ARL's PUBLICATIONS SPRINGER-VERLAG 1992 JOURNAL PRICES Maggie Rioux, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MRIOUX@WHOI.EDU. We had a visit yesterday (August 7) from John Long from Springer-Ver- lag, and he brought at least a little bit of good news about 1992 prices for European journals. Some of the prices will actually be going down! I am reproducing below the note he brought (referring to Springer titles): U.S. published journals will increase approximately 4 percent. The DM exchange rate has been set at 1.79 DM per dollar in con- trast to DM rate of 1991, 1.56. The 1992 rate makes the dollar approximately 15 percent stronger, and as a result almost all European published, Springer-Verlag journals will cost US and Canadian librarians less in 1992 than in 1991. Please see a sample listing of journals (attached) comparing 1991 price to 1992 price. '91 '92 Applied Physics A & B $1700 $1585 Archives of Microbiology 1645 1524 Archives of Virology 1173 1104 Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy 876 825 Colloid & Polymer Science 821 760 Diabetologia 383 429 European Journal of Biochemistry 1939 1748 European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 813 769 Histochemistry 1444 1360 Journal of Mathematical Biology 563 532 Journal of Neurology 625 560 Marine Biology 1969 1858 Mathematische Annalen 1772 1664 Mineralium Deposita 253 249 Oecologia 2188 2013 Physics & Chemistry of Minerals 798 699 Radiation & Environmental Biophysics 361 349 Theoretica Chimica Acta 863 881 Zeitschrift fur Physik A 1122 1047 Zeitschrift fur Physik C 1981 1888 Zeitschrift fur Physik D 1301 952 Zentralblatt fur Mathematik 4587 4317 Zoomorphology 502 461 Also - we were told by Faxon that their prediction for our title mix for 1992 was 9.5 percent increase on U.S. titles, 3.5 percent on for- eign titles. This would give us an overall increase for our list of only 5 percent. It's not much, but this is the first **good** news I've heard in a long time. SUBSCRIPTIONS VS DOCUMENT DELIVERY Fred Friend, University College London, UCYL@UCL.AC.UK. We are all finding that the Newsletter performs a valuable function in exposing publishers' unwelcome practices -- as happened with Eleanor Cook's good work on VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY -- but I am also begin- ning to appreciate the Newsletter's role in enabling us to discuss more general serials issues which emerge from the crisis over prices. One such issue which I have been thinking through, and which has ap- peared in a number of recent contributions, is the question of how we deal with the serials budget as part of the overall library budget. Like many libraries UCL has had since time immemorial a budget head called "periodicals," around 25 percent of our total expenditure, not broken down at all and not related to the other budget heads. One good thing which has come out of the crisis over prices is that we have come to look at that large sum of money more closely, both to see what it is composed of and to see how it relates to our other services. For breaking down the expenditure we are adopting the approach of identi- fying the academic departments which use particular titles and notion- ally charging those departments for those titles. You can imagine that this is not straightforward, with use by several departments of one title. We have not completed the exercise as yet, so do not ask me yet how it is working, but it does seem to be the best way of keeping journal costs under regular review. Another line I would like to pursue is to relate journal costs to document delivery costs, to say to an academic department that with the budget we have allocated to you you can either have a particular journal subscription or a certain number of journal articles delivered to your desk. Thinking of the periodicals budget in that way repre- sents a major change for library staff and for academic staff but it may prove to be a good way forward which has come out of the current crisis over prices. MECKLER PUBLISHING ANNOUNCEMENTS Mary Ellen Cisero, Meckler Publishing, MECKLER@TIGGER.JVNC.NET. Meckler Publishing, a leading technology information publisher, has established an electronic publishing division. In September, an elec- tronic journal named MECTECH WEEK will be published and include an editorial, late breaking news, and featured articles from Meckler print publications. January 14-16, 1992, Meckler will sponsor the First Annual Electronic Networking and Publishing Conference at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. An exhibit hall will offer a showcase of electronic com- munications and publishing systems and services. THOUGHTS ON ELECTRONIC INDEXING Norman Stevens, University of Connecticut, HBLADM3@UCONNVM.BITNET. While Ann Okerson has a valid point in respect to the respectability to be gained from having electronic journals indexed in standard in- dexing and abstracting services, I continue to feel that those editors are missing the boat. Standard indexing services, whether in print or electronic form, have serious flaws and it is foolish to accept those flaws. It would be far better for the electronic journals to set a new standard for indexing that would vastly improve access and might even encourage other journals, including those that have been published in print form, to join the electronic ranks. Let me give a simple example based on my own research. I have a seri- ous interest in the celebration known as Old Home Week, or Old Home Day, that began in NH in 1899 and had a strong existence for almost 25 years before starting to fade away. Remnants of it still exist and, for reasons I haven't yet been able to discover, the phrase "It's just like old home week" has gained acceptance for referring to a situation in which you unexpectedly meet a group of familiar faces in an unusual place. In pursuing my research I am collecting, among other things, all references to Old Home Week or Old Home Day that I can find. Standard indexing sources and standard library catalogs are of very little help but I have discovered that CD-ROM products and OPACs with Boolean searching are a fruitful source of information. My guess is that there are probably already such references in electronic journals and standard indexing will surely never pick them up. Free form text searching, which would require little or no human indexing skills, would be just what I need. It is a shame when those who are creating new information sources feel so constrained by tradition. There are several reasons why authors, especially faculty members, like to have their journal articles refereed and indexed. Those in- clude, of course, their quest for promotion and tenure; but, even in those crass terms, they are also interested in the extent to which their articles get cited in other works. Presumably they even have some interest in simply making their work known for altruistic rea- sons. Listing in a standard indexing service is still the safe way to go but, in fact, free text electronic indexing would be likely to increase the probability that others would seek out, use, and -- yes - - even cite their work. Plus one might assume that over time, and it may be some time, knowing how slow institutions and faculty are to change, there might even be some prestige in being able to demonstrate that your work has been indexed in the first electronic indexing serv- ice. In the present stage of our fascination with technology the fac- ulty member's department head, dean, provost, and/or president is a) unlikely to wander over to the library and look at a printed index to see what his/her faculty has been up to and, even if he/she does so, b) be incredibly bored and unimpressed. But that same person is likely to be fascinated and duly impressed by finding that same information in an electronic system that he/she might even be able to access from the office. NASIG CALL FOR PAPERS Lisa Peterson, University of California, Riverside, PETERSON@UCRVMS. BITNET. NORTH AMERICAN SERIALS INTEREST GROUP, INC. CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR WORKSHOPS CALL FOR DISCUSSION GROUP LEADERS The North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG), an organization committed to serving the interests of all members of the serials in- formation chain, will hold its seventh annual conference from June 18- 21, 1992 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. NASIG's annual conference provides a forum in which serials librarians, publishers, vendors, educators, binders, systems developers, and other specialists exchange views, present new ideas and discuss matters of current in- terest. The proceedings are published and distributed to a wide audi- ence. This is a call for PAPERS treating any aspect of serials activities such as administration, acquisitions, cataloging, automation, binding, union listing, budgeting, publishing, and future developments. Topics addressing interrelationships between the various NASIG constituencies are of special interest, as are presentations on new developments and new paradigms for the dissemination and control of the serial litera- ture. The 1992 conference will include a one-day joint session with the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). This represents a unique op- portunity for papers on the specific topics of: the National Research and Education Network (NREN); Marketing to Libraries; University Over- heads and their Relationship to Libraries; Custom Publishing and Pub- lishing on Demand; Document and Article Delivery Services -- Implica- tions for Libraries, Vendors and Publishers. This is also the call for abstracts from individuals interested in leading a WORKSHOP at the conference. Workshops are sessions designed to develop ideas and techniques for managing any aspect of serials work. Related to workshops, NASIG is also calling for DISCUSSION GROUP topics and leaders to stimulate lively exchanges, particularly about links between librarians, publishers and vendors. Submission from all members of NASIG and the serials community are welcome. Topic and speaker suggestions from the information community at large are also welcome. Titles and abstracts, to a maximum of 100 words, must be submitted by OCTOBER 1, 1991 to: Lisa Peterson, NASIG Secretary Univ. of California/LIBRARY P.O. Box 5900 Riverside, CA 92517-5900 Phone: 714-787-4381 FAX: 714-787-3285 BITNET: peterson@UCRVMS FEATHER RIVER INSTITUTE CALL FOR PAPERS Thomas Leonhardt, University of the Pacific, TLEONHARDT@MADVAX.UOP. EDU. THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC LIBRARY THIRD ANNUAL FEATHER RIVER INSTITUTE MAY 28 - MAY 31, 1992 THE EVOLUTION OF LIBRARY MATERIALS BUYING STRATEGIES AND ACQUISITIONS TENETS: FROM GATHERING PLANS TO PHILOSOPHICAL MODELS For the third annual Feather River Institute we are asking for papers that deal with some aspect of what acquisitions librarians do, or, for our historical perspective, what we have done. The topic is worded to allow the greatest possibility in answering this call while still offering the audience a coherent program. The size of the previous two Feather River Institutes has averaged 45 people, speakers included. For those who have not attended, the group is limited in size by choice. We could expand to 60 and prefer not to go below 40 for financial reasons. The small audience means that the speaker is virtually a part of the audience even while speaking and most certainly afterwards when it is time for questions and discus- sion. This is one professional gathering that guarantees good discus- sion and a chance to get to the related issues that concern you. Potential speakers are asked to submit, by October 15, 1991, an ab- stract or detailed outline of your paper (no more than two pages, please) to : Thomas W. Leonhardt Dean of Libraries University of the Pacific Stockton, CA 95211. (209)946-2434 You may also submit your abstracts via Internet to : TLEONHARDT@ MADVAX.UOP.EDU A subcommittee of four has agreed to help choose the program for 1992. Accepted papers will be published in LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS: PRACTICE AND THEORY and are expected to meet the style requirements for that journal. An informal delivery of the paper is encouraged. ABOUT FEATHER RIVER The conference is held in the Feather River Inn, originally an inn, then a prep school, and, under the ownership of the University of the Pacific, an inn again. The Feather River Inn is located in Blairsden, California on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada about an hour from Reno, Nevada. There is ample free time in the late afternoons and evenings for hik- ing, golf, and other activities. The free time and chance to meet with colleagues in a beautiful and intimate atmosphere makes this a special conference. The meals are home-cooked and taken together in a large dining hall. The talks are given in one large room with a roaring fireplace to keep the spring chill off. The Inn is about 4,500 feet above sea level so even on warm days, warm clothing is necessary. If you have any questions about FRI III, please call Tom Leonhardt at (209)946-2434 or write via USPS or the Internet. References furnished on request. WHY IT'S FREE, IF YOU QUALIFY Peter Graham, Rutgers University, GRAHAM@ZODIAC.BITNET. My daughter got YM for a while so I am now an authority: I believe it earlier stood for Young Miss, but anyone who has observed 14/16-year- old girls know that such a title won't wash any more. Young and Modern may well be what they're after now. In computing and data management there are many journals which are free to specified audiences but which may also be subscribed to. These range from fairly low-grade, always free newsletters with a very high proportion of advertising, through industry-coverage newsletters such as PC WEEK, MACWEEK and INFO WORLD, up to DATAMATION. The latter is typically subscribed to but is occasionally offered to high-level management for free (as is, I have found, MACWORLD magazine, another monthly). The intermediate range, such as PC WEEK and INFO WORLD, are very use- ful for keeping up with trends but have a half-life of about 3 months due to the technical obsolescence rapidity of the field. They can be valuable to subscribe to for a library as they have real and current information. The driving force behind these of course is the advertisers' wish to reach an audience, in this case an audience which might be deterred from subscribing but is in fact seen as a wealthy audience, i.e. one controlling very considerable purchasing power. Thus a "subscriber" gets a free offer form (often bound in each copy each week), and must re-fill out the form at regular intervals to satisfy an industry au- diting bureau that you exist, have a certain purchasing status, and still want the publication. I have never seen any check on what one fills out on these forms. I suspect publications like YM are in the same category: the advertis- ers want their ads seen, and dentists' offices and beauty shops are their water-holes. Why they don't see libraries the same way is a matter for speculation: perhaps in fact kids in their market don't go in libraries or don't get their YM fix there; perhaps they see librar- ies as having money that dentists don't (I know, I know; don't argue with *me*). Someone should ask. GHERMAN ARTICLE IN C. David Perry, UNC Press, carlos@ecsvax,BITNET, and Susan Lewis, Pennsylvania State University Press, SXL116@PSUVM.PSU.EDU. [From AAUPTALK.-ed.] PERRY: The 14 August issue of the CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION has an excellent piece by Paul Gherman, of VPI library, ("Setting Budgets for Libraries in Electronic Era," p. A36) on future acquisition strategies of university libraries. Worthwhile reading for all connected with scholarly publishing. The piece is adapted from a talk Gherman gave at the Naples AAUP meeting. LEWIS: Gherman's article on electronic publishing was excellent and perhaps a call to action as well. He lays out the situation with par- ticularly stunning clarity when he says that "the publisher who gives us the easiest, most attractive, and flexible access to full texts will win the marketplace, regardless of whether others are selling the same information in a different format." In the process of investigating e-journals, which I think will evolve much more quickly than e-monographs, I've discovered that the biggest problem publishers face is distribution. Most currently rely on sub- scription services like Faxon and EBSCO to deliver print journals. Will we use similar services for e-journals? Even if the journal ceas- es to exist as the basic unit of academic information, who will be responsible for ensuring that copyright fees are paid for access to individual articles? Some services (CARL systems immediately comes to mind) currently offer full-text electronic delivery on demand after obtaining permissions from individual publishers for electronic distribution. Can publishers count on these companies to develop an electronic subscription serv- ice? Or should we as publishers pool our resources and work with li- brarians to set up our own distribution network? Seems to me that the publishers who don't deal with these problems will not be the ones to "win the marketplace." PUBLIC-ACCESS COMPUTER SYSTEMS REVIEW: SPECIAL ISSUE ON NETWORK-BASED ELECTRONIC SERIALS Charles Bailey, University of Houston, LIB3@UHUPVM1.BITNET. PUBLIC-ACCESS COMPUTER SYSTEMS REVIEW Volume 2, Number 1 (1991) ISSN 1048-6542 Editor-In-Chief: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. University of Houston Associate Editors: Columns: Leslie Pearse, OCLC Communications: Dana Rooks, University of Houston Reviews: Mike Ridley, University of Waterloo Editorial Board: Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group Nancy Evans, Library and Information Technology Association David R. McDonald, Tufts University R. Bruce Miller, University of California, San Diego Paul Evan Peters, Coalition for Networked Informa- tion Peter Stone, University of Sussex Published on an irregular basis by the University Libraries, Universi- ty of Houston. Technical support is provided by the Information Tech- nology Division, University of Houston. Circulation: 2,685 subscribers in 32 countries. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Editor's Address: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. University Libraries University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-2091 (713) 749-4241 LIB3@UHUPVM1.BITNET Articles are stored as files at LISTSERV@UHUPVM1. To retrieve a file, send the GET command given after the article information to LISTSERV@ UHUPVM1. To retrieve the article as an e-mail message instead of a file, add "F=MAIL" to the end of the GET command. Back issues are also stored at LISTSERV@UHUPVM1. To obtain a list of all available files, send the following message to LISTSERV@UHUPVM1: INDEX PACS-L. The name of each issue's table of contents file begins with the word "CONTENTS." Note that all of the above e-mail addresses are on BITNET. The list server also has an Internet address: LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU. CONTENTS SPECIAL SECTION ON NETWORK-BASED ELECTRONIC SERIALS The Electronic Journal: What, Whence, and When? Ann Okerson (pp. 5-24) To retrieve this file: GET OKERSON PRV2N1 Online Journals: Disciplinary Designs for Electronic Scholarship Teresa M. 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