From: Pippa Smart <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:52:27 +0000

However - a word of caution ... these prices use the list price which
is not what most universities pay!
Pippa

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On 8 November 2012 02:10, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 10:17:28 +0000
>
> The site at  http://www.journalprices.com/ appears to let you calculate
> price per article
>
> Sally Morris
> South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK  BN13 3UU
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> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Laval Hunsucker <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 08:51:52 -0800
>
>> Someone somewhere must have done the sums - surely[.]
>
> How about Bergstrom and McAfee's "Journal Cost-Effectiveness"- site (
> http://www.journalprices.com/ ) ( currently :  2004-2011 ) ?
>
> Maybe it's appropriate to remember here, as well, things like Tenopir and
> King's "cost per article reading"-approach ( _Towards electronic journals :
> realities for scientists, librarians, and publishers_ (Special Libraries
> Association, 2000) ;  King et al., "Library economic metrics:
> examples of the comparison of electronic and print journal collections and
> collection services", _Library trends 51.3 ( Winter 2003 ), p.376- 400 ). --
> And, following along, Holmström's "The cost per article reading of open
> access articles" in _D-Lib Magazine_ 10.1 ( January
> 2004 ).
>
> Does any of this help ?
>
> Laval Hunsucker
> Breukelen, Nederland
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>:
>> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:16:26 +0000
>>
>> Sorry Joe and everyone else. I was not referring to APC costs (which
>> have gone up and also gone down depending on the publisher) but to
>> costs per article for libraries under the subscription model over the
>> last few decades. We know the costs of journals has gone up but we
>> also know that the number of articles in the journals have increased.
>> The cost per article to libraries is an indication is a better
>> indication of wickedness among publishers than the cost per journal
>> unless you believe as some seem to do that it is in the interest of
>> publishers to fill journals with a lot of rubbish which will have a
>> very bad effect on impact factors. Someone somewhere must have done
>> the sums - surely
>>
>> Anthony