From: Gary Price <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:31 PM

From the Announcement/Summary:

The 2015 Serials Price Projection Report from EBSCO Information
Services (EBSCO) advises that the overall effective publisher price
increases for academic and academic/medical libraries are expected to
be in the range of 5 to 7 percent (before currency impact).

EBSCO releases the Serials Price Projections based on surveys of a
wide range of publishers and reviews of historical serials pricing
data to assist information professionals as they make budgeting
decisions for the upcoming renewals season.

Price increases seem to have leveled off recently which is likely due
to several factors.

There has been a proliferation of multi-term, fixed increase license
agreements that contribute to predictable and slower cost increases.
In addition, the number of Open Access journals continues to grow
although the majority of OA projects seek to shift expenses from
libraries to research. This may mean that institutions that do not
produce significant amounts of research published in OA journals may
experience reduced costs but those who produce a relatively high
volume of OA published scholarship may face increased overall coasts.

Full Announcement, Link to Full Report, Link to Five Year Journal
Price Increase History (2010 – 2014) Chart, and Links to Reports From
2012-2014 in this infoDOCKET post.

http://www.infodocket.com/2014/10/02/ebsco-releases-2015-serials-price-projection-report-overall-effective-publisher-price-increases-expected-to-be-in-the-range-of-5-to-7-percent/

__gary

Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal's INFOdocket.com
Co-Founder and Editor, FullTextReports.com
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
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