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 ASU Box 32026 218 College Street Boone, NC 28608 828-262-2821 (vox) 828-262-2773 (fax) [log in to unmask]