From: "John P. Abbott" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:05:29 -0500



On 12/1/2011 7:22 PM, LIBLICENSE wrote:
>
> Toll-access publishers fight hard to get the best publications and the best
> authors for those publications because that perceived quality can lead to
> stronger revenues.


This is an idealized vision of large publishers slugging it out in the
best interests
of competition and so driving the market's invisible hand.  Most large
publishers
produce and clog the market with more mediocre journals than prestigious ones.
Once competition in the title-by-title acquisition by libraries helped purge
the market.  Now in the Big Deal model, new journals are added to the package
and often there is no opt-out, only notification that the Big Deal will inflate
some percentage and there will be a forced acquisition of these new titles at
some percent of an imaginary list price for the new titles.   Journal titles
rarely cease in this market.

John


John P. Abbott, MS MSLS
Associate Professor&  Coordinator, Collection Management
University Library
Appalachian State University
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218 College Street
Boone, NC  28608

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