From: Danny Kingsley <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 05:49:21 +0000

Hi Ann,

I was struck buy the average price paid per title in England - USD 1915
(approx  USD 1272)

Cambridge University spent on average GBP 1891 on EACH APC in 2014 -
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=79

No wonder "Publishers have embraced open access as another means of
generating revenue and have been fairly successful.²

Danny

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Dr Danny Kingsley
Head of Scholarly Communication
Cambridge University Library
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On 23/04/2015 23:42, "LIBLICENSE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:35:51 -0400
>
>By Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson
>
>http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/04/publishing/whole-lotta-shakin-goin-on
>-periodicals-price-survey-2015/#_
>
>As always, worth a detour.  Lots of interesting tidbits, such as this one:
>
>"The debate on Big Deal e-journal packages is likely to continue for
>some time. Some 57% of library respondents to the 2014 EBSCO Budgeting
>and Trends Survey reported that they would consider breaking up
>e-journal packages, subscribing only to the most used titles in the
>bundle to achieve their budget goals; 77% respondents indicated that
>they were likely to renegotiate multiyear agreements for lower overall
>prices and/or price caps. Some 74% of publishers responding to the
>same survey indicated that they were likely to offer smaller subsets
>of content in the coming year; 78% of publisher respondents thought
>that the Big Deal would be around in four years (2019). In an
>evaluation of more than 3,000 e-journal packages handled by EBSCO for
>2014, the average price increase was 6.6%."