Newsletter on Serial Pricing Issues 085 (June 20, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/nspi/nspi-ns085 ISSN: 1046-3410 NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES NO 85 -- June 20, 1993 Editor: Marcia Tuttle CONTENTS 85.1 JOURNAL PRICES PROGRAM UPDATE, Marcia Tuttle 85.2 FROM THE EDITOR, Marcia Tuttle 85.3 ALA ELECTRONIC JOURNALS PROGRAM, Mary Case 85.4 SISAC TO DEMONSTRATE SERIALS CHECK-IN WITH BAR CODE SYMBOL AT ALA, Sandra Paul 85.5 MELLON FOUNDATION STUDY DISCUSSION AT ALA (ARL ANNOUNCEMENT), Fred Lyndon 85.6 PUBLISHERS WHO REFUSE TO WORK WITH VENDORS, Mary Ellen Ken- reich 85.1 JOURNAL PRICES PROGRAM UPDATE Marcia Tuttle, Chair, ACRL Journal Prices in Academic Libraries Discussion Group, tuttle@gibbs.olit.unc.edu. At about the same time Newsletter 84 was being distributed I received a message that the location of the ALA/ACRL Journal Prices in Academic Libraries Discussion Group (Saturday, June 26, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.) has been moved to Ballroom 2, Room C in the New Orleans Convention Center. This is on the 2nd level, near "60" rooms. The discussion will be on the model copyright document written by the TRLN libraries in North Carolina. Gary Byrd, chair of the drafting committee, will focus on the process of creating the document and the key issues they are grappling with, as well as the elements of the model policy they have and have not reached consensus on. Four panelists will respond to Byrd: Paul Mosher, Eric Swanson, Jack Timberlake, and Fred Spilhaus. 85.2 FROM THE EDITOR Marcia Tuttle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tuttle@gibbs.oit.unc.edu. Thanks to all of you who responded to my recent questionnaire about a pos- sible paper backfile of the newsletter. (And my apologies for listing my office telephone number as the fax number.) Your messages ran about 2 to 1 against such a product, but many of you who did not feel the need for a printed file did indicate the need for an index. And an index, at least, there will be. When and in what format has not been determined, but I will keep you informed. Thanks also for your comments on the newsletter itself. In the midst of a very busy spring, they were most welcome. On a housekeeping matter, many institutions are dropping their BITNET serv- ice, and this presents problems for the Newsletter mailing list. This news- letter is more than four years old, and when many of you subscribed, BITNET was the system you used. Now most of us have Internet addresses, and mail to the old BITNET id is forwarded. Many of you who subscribed with a BITNET address are still listed that way. If your institution will be dropping BITNET anytime soon, you can reduce the chance of missed issues for you and error messages for me if you will subscribe again using your Internet ad- dress, then unsubscribe using your BITNET address. For many of you it is no longer possible to send a message from your BITNET address. If this is the case, please resubscribe using your Internet address and send me a message asking me to delete the old address from the list. I appreciate your help! 85.3 ALA ELECTRONIC JOURNALS PROGRAM Mary M. Case, Northwestern University, MCASE@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU. ALCTS SERIALS SECTION PROGRAM ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: MEETING THE CHALLENGE Sunday, June 27, 1993 2-4 p.m. New Orleans Convention Center - Room 38 ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: MEETING THE CHALLENGE will address the issues presen- ted by electronic journals throughout the scholarly communication chain. Speakers representing publishers and editors, librarians, contributors and end-users will discuss the creation, production, distribution, organiza- tion, maintenance and use of electronic journals from their unique perspec- tives, highlighting successes and issues yet to be resolved. A final speak- er will speculate on the continuing evolution of the electronic journal and the changes which we will need to make to position ourselves to continue to meet the challenges. SPEAKERS Marcia Tuttle, Head, Serials Dept., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and editor of "Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues" Gail McMillan, Serials Team Leader, Virginia Polytechnic James O'Donnell, Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania, and editor of the "Bryn Mawr Classical Review" John Ulmschneider, Assistant Director for Library Systems, North Carolina State University 85.4 SISAC TO DEMONSTRATE SERIALS CHECK-IN WITH BAR CODE SYMBOL AT ALA Sandra Paul, SISAC, 555.2838@mcimail.com. The Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee (SISAC) will demonstrate Serials Check-in using the SISAC Bar Code Symbol during ALA. FIND OUT - Which publishers are printing the SISAC Bar Code Symbol on their journals - Which automation systems can scan the SISAC Bar Code - How to create the SISAC Bar Code Symbol and the cost of doing so - Which scanners read the bar code - What information is in the bar code - How easy it is to check-in using the bar code (it's a breeze) - How you can help promote the use of the bar code You'll hear from: Sue Malawski, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. & Chair, SISAC George Wright IV, PIPS, Inc. (bar code producer) Steve Dane, Kluwer Academic Publishing, Inc. Jim Young, SIRSI Corporation Please join us: DATE: Sunday, June 27, 1993 TIME: 4 - 6 p.m. PLACE: New Orleans Convention Center, Room 51 If you have any questions, don't hesitate contacting me at: Sandy Paul, SISAC, 160 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10010, 555.2838@MCIMAIL.COM. phone 212/929- 1393, fax 212/989-7542. 85.5 MELLON FOUNDATION STUDY DISCUSSION AT ALA (ARL ANNOUNCEMENT) Ann Okerson, ARL, submitted by Fred Lyndon, Brown University, ap010037@brownvm.brown.edu. On Saturday afternoon, June 26th, from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., the Scholarly Communications Committee of ALCTS is sponsoring a program built around the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's recent study, _University Libraries and Scholarly Communication_. Richard Ekman, Secretary of the Mellon Foundation and one of the authors of the report, will give an overview and will be followed by three superb speakers as respondents. They are: Nancy Cline, Dean of University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University. As director of one of the nation's largest research libraries, Nancy will offer her thoughtful and energetic perspective on the key points of the study. Kenneth Arnold, Director, Rutgers University Press. A leader in the univer- sity press community as well as a witty speaker, Ken will offer the view- point of a scholarly publishing enterprise experiencing transition. James J. O'Donnell, Professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvan- ia, will engage the audience with an eloquent scholar's statement about this and other wake-up calls to the professoriate, an group facing many of its own challenges. The program will be moderated by Duane Webster, Executive Director of the ARL. The ALCTS Scholarly Communications Committee was formed in 1991, as an outgrowth of ALCTS' Serials Task Force recommendations. That task force of the late 80s was chaired by Robert Wedgeworth (University of Illinois). The Committee is currently chaired by Fred Lynden, AUL for Technical Services at Brown University. 85.6 PUBLISHERS WHO REFUSE TO WORK WITH VENDORS Mary Ellen Kenreich, Portland State University, kenreich@lib.pdx.edu. [Mary Ellen sent this message in early April. My apologies for the delay in passing it on. -Ed.] Yesterday I received a flyer from Haworth Press encouraging libraries to deal directly with them instead of ordering through subscription agents. I get really irritated by publishers who refuse to deal with vendors and I'm afraid Haworth is moving in that direction. I don't think publishers real- ize the important service vendors provide for libraries. I sent the follow- ing letter today to the Circulation Manager at Haworth whose name was on the flyer. I thought it might be of interest to the Newsletter. ----- April 5, 1993 Karen Andrews, Circulation Manager The Haworth Press, Inc. 10 Alice St. Binghamton, NY 13904-1580 Dear Ms. Andrews: I was surprised and disappointed to receive the Haworth flyer on your new Order Direct Subscription Program along with a consolidated renewal notice of our Haworth subscriptions. It appears you are trying to provide the same services we now receive from our subscription agencies and vendors. In my 12 years as a serials librarian, I have worked in libraries with as few as 600 subscriptions as as many as 14,000. In all cases I relied heavi- ly on vendors to consolidate our orders and simplify payments and claims. I feel they serve as an excellent interface between libraries and the multi- tude of publishers whose titles we all subscribe to. Your renewal notice includes 6 of our 11,000 serial titles. Although we are in a period of major budget reductions and we are interested in the dis- counted subscriptions you mention, it does not make economic sense for us to place those subscriptions directly with you instead of with a vendor as they are now. Your flyer specifically says these discounts do not apply to vendors. I urge you to pass on discounts to vendors instead of (or in addition to) libraries. I think publishers should also see the benefits of dealing with vendors rather than directly with libraries. Wouldn't a publisher rather receive one payment for 100 subscriptions with accounts and addresses at- tached, than 100 checks in 100 envelopes from 100 libraries? Isn't consoli- dation as cost effective for publishers as it is for libraries? Librarians are interested in getting the most for their money. Even with your discounts, we would have to subscribe to several hundred of your seri- al titles before it would be economical for us to deal directly with you instead of our existing serial vendor. I was suprised that although Haworth has a toll free phone number, you did not list it anywhere on the flyer. I found it incredible that you mentioned Haworth will still accept orders from vendors "subject to our careful credit & financial review." Most sub- scription agencies used by libraries have been in business much longer than Haworth Press. I ask you to re-evaluate your direction of encouraging libraries to deal with you directly. As a serials librarian at a medium sized academic li- brary I will always prefer to consolidate our orders through a vendor rath- er than ordering directly with individual publishers. Please continue to work on your relationship with vendors, offering them your discounts, so that we can continue to subscribe to your journals in the most cost effec- tive manner. Thank you. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Statements of fact and opinion appearing in the _Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues_ are made on the responsibility of the authors alone, and do not imply the endorsement of the editor, the editorial board, or the Uni- versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Readers of the NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES are encouraged to share the information in the newsletter by electronic or paper methods. 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