Más de Nature. Y la pobre pide disculpas porque, en realidad, le han subido un 35% en vez de un 57%. Si encima hay que darles las gracias...
Manuela Moreno Mancebo
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De: Lesley Crawshaw [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Enviado el: martes, 18 de mayo de 2004 15:56
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Asunto: Re: Nature price increases
Hi,
I like be fair to publishers, so felt it was only right that following
further communication (off list and not from NPG I hasten to add) I now need
to make a correction to my earlier email on a massive price hike for the
print version of Nature in 2004 relative to the 2003 pricing.
The reason for this is because it appears that part of the massive price
increase that we paid this year was due to an error by our agent, which has
resulted in us being overcharged for this particular subscription. So whilst
we paid £590 for the print version of Nature in 2003, we should only have
paid £800 for the print version of Nature in 2004 (ref:
http://npg.nature.com/npg/servlet/Form?action=submit&form=07_price) I make
that a 35% increase in price, not the 57% I quoted. However, that is still a
hefty increase in price.
Some people may ask why do we still have a print subscription at all. The
answer is if we ever cancelled our online subscription to Nature, we would
have no rights to access the backfile - Nature currently operates an all or
nothing online only site license. As a result we have almost no choice but
to maintain a print subscription to this title. We have to do the same with
Science.
We are now contacting our agent to get a refund.
Cheers
Lesley
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lesley Crawshaw [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 18 May 2004 13:03
To: 'An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group'
Subject: RE: Nature price increases
Hi,
Following on from what James said about NPG e-journals being previously
under priced in comparison with the print. It's not only the electronic
version of Nature that has increased in price.
We still take a print version of Nature (as well as a subscription to the
e-version) and were shocked to find that whereas last year we paid just
under £590 for the print version this year we paid £927 for the print
version. That's a whopping 57% increase in price!! I was told by NPG that
this large increase was because they hadn't increased the price of the print
version for several years now. How is one expected to budget for such large
and unexpected price increases?
Cheers
Lesley
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-----Original Message-----
From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James Watson
Sent: 05 May 2004 17:27
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Subject: Nature price increases
Dear all,
Here at UCL we've just received our quote for the renewal of the majority of
our Nature e-journals. I was rather shocked to discover that the price
increase across the 14 titles was nearly 75% on last year.
I contacted NPG about the large price increase and the reasons that were
given were the introduction of COUNTER compliant stats and that the
e-journals were previously under priced in comparison with the print.
hmm. Seems like a big increase to me...
Has everyone else out there had a similar experience?
cheers
James
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