Newsletter on Serial Pricing Issues 107 (February 14, 1994) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/nspi/nspi-ns107 ISSN: 1046-3410 NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES NO 107 -- February 14, 1994 Editor: Marcia Tuttle CONTENTS 107.1 FROM THE EDITOR, Marcia Tuttle 107.2 FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC PERIODICALS PRICE INDEX FOR CANADA 1994, Keith Guyitt 107.3 SWETS REPORT ON RECEIPT OF 1994 SUBSCRIPTION PRICES, Han Nouwen 107.4 FROM THE MAILBOX 107.1 FROM THE EDITOR Marcia Tuttle, tuttle@gibbs.oit.unc.edu. A few weeks ago the newsletter began getting about five new subscribers a day. I was delighted but mystified. Then I remembered that Marilyn Geller had posted her latest issue of _Citations for Serial Literature_ on serialst. That issue gave the contents of two recent pricing newsletters, as well as instructions on how to subscribe. That publicity had to be the reason for so many new newsletter subscribers. More recently, Birdie Mac- Lennan posted the Serialst Purpose and Scope, which mentions this publica- tion. Several more new newsletter subscribers! In return, I'd like to give both Birdie and Marilyn a plug. Discussion of any matters having to do with library serials and serials librarianship are appropriate for Serialst and its about 1,500 international recipients. To subscribe, send a message to either listserv@uvmvm.bitnet or listserv@uvmvm.uvm.edu, and say: subscribe serialst [your name]. Because CSL is newer and not as well known, here is a little more informa- tion about it: CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE was created in February 1992 with a three- fold purpose: to identify literature related to the serial information chain, to disseminate this information in a timely manner, and to create an index in this field with electronic searching capabilities. To achieve these goals, CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE publishes table of contents, and abstracts when they are available, for a variety of journals which address issues of concern to serials librarians, vendors and publishers. Complete table of contents are included for the following titles: Advances in Serials Management NASIG Newsletter Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues Serials: The Journal of the United Kingdom Serials Group Serials Review In addition, selective tables of contents are included for the following titles: Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE is an electronic index which publishes the table of contents and abstracts, when available, for articles related to the serials information chain. It is NOT an electronic discussion list. All complete and selective table of contents materials in CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE are reproduced with the permission of the original publisher. The section of this index entitled "Serendipitous citings" includes rele- vant citations from journals not generally listed here. These citations are contributed by users. It is the intention of the editor to expand the number of journals included in this database. Editors and publishers interested in participating in this project should contact the editor at sercites@mitvma.mit.edu or mgeller@mit.edu to discuss the possibility. To subscribe, send a message to LISTSERV@MITVMA or LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU that reads: subscribe SERCITES . CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE is edited and published by Marilyn Geller. 107.2 FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC PERIODICALS PRICE INDEX FOR CANADA 1994 Keith Guyitt, Faxon Canada, keith@faxon.ca. For the fourth consecutive year, Faxon Canada and the School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Cana- da, are working together to produce a periodical price index. The 1994 index is presently in preparation. The first two indexes were published in the _Canadian Library Journal_. The third index appeared in the _Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science_. The articles have been auth- ored by students in the Master of Library and Information Science program at the School. The raw data is supplied from the Faxon Canada serials data- base. Preliminary figures from the 1994 Index data were made available for fiscal planning to Faxon Canada clients. Prices for 1994 subscriptions ordered by Canadian libraries rose 10.52%, increasing the average cost of one subscription in Canadian dollars from $332.13 to $367.07. Mathematics and Computer Science titles showed the greatest increase (13.79%) of all journals ordered. A review of overall increases in the subscription costs of titles published by country showed the following results: Country % increase '94 over '93 Canada 5.85 France 6.02 Germany 4.74 Japan 21.72 Netherlands 9.63 United Kingdom 10.91 United States 11.57 For journals published in Canada, Science and Technology titles continued to show the greatest percentage increase at 7.29% For further information, contact Keith Guyitt, Faxon Canada -- KEITH@FAXON.CA 107.3 SWETS REPORT ON RECEIPT OF 1994 SUBSCRIPTION PRICES Han Nouwen, Swets Subscription Services, h.nouwen@swets.nl. In October last year we gave details of the receipt times of major publish- ers' 1994 price lists as they stood at that time. We now have a final pic- ture of the situation at January for our largest 278 publishers (turnover 50,000 US Dollars each). Receipt dates were as follows: March 1993 1 April 1993 1 May 1993 1 June 1993 11 July 1993 79 August 1993 87 September 1993 53 October 1993 27 November 1993 13 December 1993 3 January 1994 2 These show that 180 (64.75%) were received by the end of August and 260 (93.53%) by the end of October, two important points in time for customers and agents. With regard to price increases for 1994 our records showed that, based on all prices received by January 1994, the publishers' price increases for 6 of the main publishing countries were: USA 9.19 percent UK 12.00 percent Holland 12.44 percent France 2.34 percent Germany 6.73 percent Switzerland 10.77 percent These are publishers' price increases in their own currencies and do not allow for the effect of exchange rate changes. 107.4 FROM THE MAILBOX The mailbox is: tuttle@gibbs.oit.unc.edu. >From Elliott Lieb, Princeton University, lieb@math.Princeton.EDU: Librarians might be interested to know what can be done pricewise if there are serious editors and serious publishers who are determined to keep pric- es down. International Press (Hong Kong, Cambridge Mass) just came out with a math journal called MRL (Math Research Letters). It will have six issues per year (about 120 pages/issue so far). Cost: $85 to individuals, $130 to libraries per year. Note also that they allow authors to keep copyright. This is stated on the front cover. They also give 50 free reprints. There are no page charges. ---------- >From Timothy Cullen, Blackwell Publishers Journals Marketing Coordinator: I want to alert serials librarians to a recent publishing change in _Micro- computers in Civil Engineering_ (ISSN: 0885-9507). It had been announced last fall by Elsevier that the journal would merge with another journal and be published in 1994 as _Advances in Engineering Software_. This is not the case. Volume 9, 1994 of _Microcomputers in Civil Engineer- ing_ will be published in 6 issues. 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