daveb@geaclib.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) (12/31/88)
> In article <43150@linus.UUCP> munck@faron.UUCP (Robert Munck) writes: >>I just received an advertising flyer from John Wiley & Sons for >>the journal "Software Practice & Experience." [...] >>Until, that is, you come to the subscription price. This flyer >>offers a mark-down from $315/year to $236.25/year for "personal >>subscriptions mailed to a home address." (Twelve issues.) You will find that this is a problem that the library community is having to deal with: all the journals are becoming VERY expensive. When I was at Geac, the problem was just becoming evident to the hangers-on (meaning us), and the librarians were being quite blunt about it. To paraphrase: The journal publishers have a captive market in the academic libraies, and have a seller's market in that academics **must** publish in the learned journals. Therefore they feel free to raise the prices arbitrarily. The best approach is to start a consortium (I used to read Ian Winton's copy) or contribute to the university library of your choice. -dave c-b -- David Collier-Brown. | yunexus!lethe!dave Interleaf Canada Inc. | 1550 Enterprise Rd. | He's so smart he's dumb. Mississauga, Ontario | --Joyce C-B