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I agree with you Lesley. Hospital Medicine also changed it's name halfway through the year. New name, new price. One of the problems we are having is that journals increase their prices but also change from username and password access to IP address which penalises our members based around the world. Stephen Cook Assistant Librarian: Systems & Technical Services The Markland Library Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 27 Sussex Place Regent's Park London NW1 4RG Tel: (020) 7772-6309 Fax: (020) 7262-8331 www.rcog.org.uk "Setting standards to improve women's health" -----Original Message----- From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Lesley Crawshaw Sent: 21 September 2005 14:39 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [LIS-E-JOURNALS] Pricing Policy for Online Journals Published by MA Healthcare Ltd. Hi, We have institutional subscriptions to two MA Healthcare Ltd. journals which are now available electronically through their own web sites, Hospital Medicine (also known as British Journal of Hospital Medicine) and International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation. We recently enquired about the pricing for online only access to these two journals for 2006 and were shocked to find that they will now cost £1500 each. This is roughly three times the price we paid for online access in 2005 for Hospital Medicine and roughly five times what we paid for print only access in 2005 for International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation. I should also point out that despite several emails between myself and MA Healthcare Ltd. that we still haven't had any online access to Hospital Medicine this year, and I am still trying to get that resolved. We had tried to find this information on their web site at: http://www.markallengroup.com/healthcare/index.html, but pricing for institutional subscriptions is not detailed on the web site, which is very unhelpful. I have contacted MA Healthcare Ltd. and was told that the pricing reflected the fact that many more users would be able to access the journal online, than would have been able to access the print and also that users would also have access to the online archive. I have expressed my concern about such a pricing hike, especially when that information has not been communicated to us either through the web site or via our agent. Whilst I could accept the pricing increase (reluctantly) for Hospital Medicine because it has a wide "appeal", I consider the price hike for International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation to be totally unacceptable as the audience for this within our institution is much more limited. Have any others out there moved to online only for these two titles? Have others considered moving to online only, but have been put off by the pricing? Have others upgraded their subscriptions to online only without being aware of the price hike to move these journals online only. We also have an online only subscription to InterNurse, which contains 8 MA Healthcare Ltd. journals, and which costs around £230/title. What I don't understand is why Hospital Medicine and International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation couldn't have been added to this collection. Do any others out there share my concerns about massive hikes in prices when some journals go online? Cheers Lesley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant Learning and Information Services University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ email: [log in to unmask] phone: 01707 284662 fax: 01707 284666 list owner: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________