Just thought I would add a voice from the publisher.
At SAGE Publications we inform Subscription Agents of our new prices each
year in August. At this stage we also give them details about electronic
access, new journals, new acquisitions, frequency changes, title changes. We
do not send this direct to librarians because it was our expectation that
agents would be forwarding this information on to librarians and we also
believed that librarians wouldn't want to be inundated from publishers.
I would be interested to hear whether this information is not getting
forwarded to librarians and whether in fact you would prefer to receive this
sort of information direct from individual publishers.
For the record SAGE's prices once again include electronic access through
one of our six approved intermediaries.
Jane
Jane Makoff
Head of Journals Marketing
Sage Publications
6 Bonhill Street
London
EC2A 4PU
Tel: +44 (0)20 7374 0645
Fax: +44 (0)20 7374 8741
Website: www.sagepub.co.uk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ebenezer, Catherine [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 16 October 2001 14:39
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> Subject: Re: Journal Subscription Options for 2002 - Why Do So Many
> Publis hers Leave It So Late to Make Their Subscription Pricing Decisions
>
> Dear Lesley
>
> I am also finding--after I have paid my one-line invoice for 2002--that
> publishers are changing their policies and requiring us to pay surcharges
> for online access. It's a frightful bore. Our agent tells us when they
> can,
> but it seems they are being kept in the dark as well.
>
> Catherine
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lesley Crawshaw [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 16 October 2001 14:26
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Journal Subscription Options for 2002 - Why Do So Many
> Publishers Leave It So Late to Make Their Subscription Pricing Decisions
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Do you find you are having to make renewal decisions for next years
> journal
> subscriptions without the full facts at your fingertips??
>
> I am currently trying to renew journal subscriptions for 2002 for the
> Faculty that I am responsible for, in particular trying to identify the
> options for online only, print/online, print only for 2002, as where
> licensing/deals/costs allow I would like to move to electronic only for
> 2002. However I am having a hell of a time trying to find out what
> different
> publishers pricing policies are for 2002. In many cases I am having to
> visit
> the publishers web sites to try and find this information, only to find in
> many cases that the information on their site still refers to 2001
> subscription prices!! So in many cases I am having to phone them directly
> or
> email them to try and clarify next years pricing policies. Our
> subscription
> agents don't seem to have the latest information on their renewal forms
> either to us avoid having to go through this laborious process. I guess
> that
> they find themselves in the same position as librarys.
>
> A few weeks ago I returned one of the smaller renewal lists to one of our
> agents, confident that I had clarified all the options and made the
> correct
> decisions. Silly me!!
>
> This morning I received an email from one of the publishers to which we
> have
> a single subscription informing me that they were changing their policy
> for
> 2002 pricing, in particular that print no longer came free with online,
> but
> that there were no 3 different options. This was not what I was told when
> I
> phoned them to find out their pricing for 2002. I followed the link on
> their
> email to find the latest pricing for this journal to find that it still
> had
> 2001 pricing!! Anyway to cut a long story short I now find I have to
> reinstruct the subscription agent about the renewal of this particular
> title.
>
> I am also concerned that in trying to continue the move to online only for
> our journal subscriptions, that I am in danger of ending up with no access
> to anything.
>
> Are others finding similar problems??
>
> Cheers
> Lesley
>
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