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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University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
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