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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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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