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From: daveb@geaclib.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: The High Cost Of Journals (was SP&E)
Message-ID: <3527@geaclib.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 88 18:26:49 GMT
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Organization: GEAC Computers, Toronto, CANADA
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> In article <43150@linus.UUCP> munck@faron.UUCP (Robert Munck) writes:
>>I just received an advertising flyer from John Wiley & Sons for
>>the journal "Software Practice & Experience." 
[...]
>>Until, that is, you come to the subscription price.  This flyer
>>offers a mark-down from $315/year to $236.25/year for "personal
>>subscriptions mailed to a home address."  (Twelve issues.)

  You will find that this is a problem that the library community is
having to deal with: all the journals are becoming VERY expensive.
  When I was at Geac, the problem was just becoming evident to the
hangers-on (meaning us), and the librarians were being quite blunt
about it.

  To paraphrase:
	The journal publishers have a captive market in the academic 
	libraies, and have a seller's market in that academics
	**must** publish in the learned journals.  Therefore they
	feel free to raise the prices arbitrarily.

  The best approach is to start a consortium (I used to read Ian
Winton's copy) or contribute to the university library of your
choice.

-dave c-b
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