Dear All,
I have read with interest the messages about the price increases for EMBO journals in 2004. The Babraham Institute is part of the BBSRC and our package was calculated on the basis of 193 science FTEs, out of a total staff of 330. Although I was expecting a price rise, given that we subscribed to both journals, it was higher than anticipated. So much so, in fact, that I asked NPG whether they had classed us a commercial company, rather than a government-funded research institute. NPG informed me that there was no difference in pricing based on types of institution. Our subscription to EMBO Journal/EMBO Reports went up by 56.5%, from £1220 to £1910 for print + online, excluding VAT. (We were quoted £1767 for online only). We subscribed to both journals in 2003 and had intended to subscribe to both journals in 2004. I am not sure where the 5% price rised mentioned by Professor Gannon comes from, as I would have thought that we are a pretty small institution. Furthermore, we have only ever had one subscription in the Library to these journals and, to the best of my knowledge, nobody had personal subscriptions.
Best wishes,
Jennifer.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lesley Crawshaw [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 26 January 2004 14:05
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Subject: Re: price increase of the EMBO journal for 2004
Hi,
One thing that seems to becoming apparent in this discussion is that the
Science FTEs that NPG are using for each institution lack consistency. I
argued with NPG that it was unfair to count environmental sciences,
geographers, sports science/sport therapy in our Science FTE figures as
there was no likelihood that staff and students in these areas would ever
make use of EMBO Journal/EMBO Reports. I can confirm that the FTE Science
figure that was used for the pricing of this online only package for our
institution not only excluded these subject areas, but also the following
subject areas psychology, health sciences, computer scientists and
engineers, mathematicians, physics and astronomy.
The result of the calculations was an increase in price from £875 to £1431 +
VAT.
If these other FTEs had been included we would have almost certainly had to
cancel the journal, as it was we reluctantly ordered the institutional
online only site license for 2004.
Cheers
Lesley
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University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
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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 slandy
Sent: 23 January 2004 17:04
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Subject: Re: price increase of the EMBO journal for 2004
Like Jason Harper, I suggested to the NPG sales rep. that the price for our
institutional licence to The EMBO Journal should be based on staff and
student FTEs in our School of Biology & Biochemistry. He insisted that all
our science staff and students - including psychologists and geographers -
had to be counted in order to be given a quote for 2004. Interestingly,
unlike Jason, I was permitted to omit computer scientists and engineers. The
result of the calculations was an increase in price from £864 to £2061
Sheila Landy
Science Librarian/Faculty Librarian for Science and Agriculture
028 9027 4302
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