> The new e-only option will allow customers to renew 2009 subscriptions
> to all IOP Publishing-owned titles in 2010 with no price increase.
E-only
> versions of IOP journal packages will also be available for the first
time.
This is clearly false labeling. If e-only was not available before, you
can only compare etween print + online. There the price increase is +5%,
on average.
One exception is Physical Biology, where e-only and e-only with year-end
print volume are priced the same as in 2009. (For the three e-only
journals published on behalf of SISSA,
- Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
- Journal of Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics
- Journal of Instrumentation
the price increase is 5%.)
The other notable exception is Journal of Physics D, where e-only = last
years combined price, while print incl. online goes up by 15% (frequency
increases from 24 to 50 issues/year). Also, Plasma Sources Science and
Technology, where again e-only = last years combined price, print incl.
online goes up by 30% (frequency increases from 4 to 6 issues a year),
leading to greater savings for going e-only.
It is disappointing that IOP gives only 5% discount for going e-only
(with the two exceptions noted above, where greater savings will occur).
This price differential is too small for EU countries where VAT is
charged on electronic subscriptions and is a quarter of what AIP or APS
are being able to offer. E.g., in Germany, a combined subscription
(according to IOP print with free online access) is charged with the
reduced VAT rate of 7%, while e-only is charged with the full VAT rate
of 19%. Consequently, switching to e-only would increase our costs by
10%, contrary to what IOP asserts.
For most european countries this means that a combined print + online
subscription is still cheaper than e-only for most titles, with the
consequence that there will be little incentive to switch to e-only,
with the notable exception of JPB (At our library we will continue to
subscribe to the combined version of most titles, but will throw away
print after one year. This doesn't exactly help reducing paper
consumption...)
For comparison, APS is able to offer e-only for at most ca. 81% of a
combined subscription (with the smallest tiers, it is ca. 68%), AIP at
82%. I do not understand why savings should be so much smaller for IOP.
Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library
Samantha Papuca schrieb:
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>
> Journal subscription prices frozen for 2010 e-only access
>
> IOP Publishing (IOP) is pleased to introduce e-only subscriptions for
> 2010. The new e-only option will allow customers to renew 2009
> subscriptions to all IOP Publishing-owned titles in 2010 with no price
> increase. E-only versions of IOP journal packages will also be available
> for the first time.
>
> A full list of 2010 prices, including all our partner journal prices, is
> available now at librarians.iop.org.
>
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> More Open Access publications
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> including: Environmental Research Letters; IOP Conference Series: Earth
> and Environmental Science; Journal of Physics: Conference Series; New
> Journal of Physics; Science and Technology of Advanced Materials; and IOP
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>
> Improving online services
> IOP continues to look at how we can improve the online delivery of journal
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> subscriptions and enhance the researcher's experience. In 2009/2010 IOP
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> include the latest in emerging technologies. We will be making further
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> from the planned improvements.
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> We look forward to working with you in 2010.
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