Proliferating pricing models

Serials Librarian

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 199-213

  Siar, Janet ^a   Schaffner, Melanie ^b   Hahn, Karla L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 22544449288     PISSN: 0361526X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J123v48n01_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (19)

1. In their annual analyses of serial pricing trends Lee Van Orsdel and Kathleen Born document this trend. See Van Orsdel, Lee, and Kathleen Bom, "Big Chill on the Big Deal?" Library Journal 128, no. 7 (2003): 51-56:
2. Van Orsdel, Lee, and Kathleen Born, "Doing the Digital Flip," Library Journal 127, no. 7 (2002): 51-55;
3. and Born, Kathleen, and Lee Van Orsdel, "Searching for Serials Utopia." Library Journal 126, no. 7 (2001): 53-58.
4. Rhind-Tutt, Stephen, "What a Tangled Web We Weave," Against the Grain 10, no. 1 (1998): 24, 26-28.
5. Cox, John, and Laura Cox, "Scholarly Publishing Practice: The ALPSP Report on Academic Journal Publishers' Policies and Practices in Online Publishing" (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, 2003).
6. Knight, Nancy H., and Susan B. Hillson. "Electronic Pubs Pricing in the Web Era: NASIG Conference Workshop Identifies Pros and Cons of 16 Models," Internet Publishing Today (1998): 39-40.
7. PELICAN is an acronym for Pricing Experimental Library Information Cooperative Network. It was funded as a year project by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). For further information on the project see http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/disresearch/pelican/indexpage.
8. The Pelican Project is described in detail in Hardy, Rachel, Charles Oppenheim, and Iris Rubbert, "Pelican: One Step Closer to the Solution of the Pricing Problem," Information Services and Use 21, no. 3/4 (2001): 157-64;
9. Hardy, Rachel, Charles Oppenheim, and Iris Rubbert, "Pelican: A Pricing Mechanism for the Electronic Distribution of Materials to the Higher Education Community," Learned Publishing 14, no. 2 (2001): 93-96;
10. and Hardy, Rachel, Charles Oppenheim, and Iris Rubbert, "Pricing Strategies and Models for the Provision of Digitized Texts in Higher Education," Journal of Information Science 28, no. 2 (2002): 97-110.
11. For some examples of various novel pricing models announced by publishers consider Douglas, Kimberly, Dana Roth, and David Goodman, E-Choice Option for Elsevier's Science/Direct (SPARC, The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, 2002) [cited 2/20/2002];
12. "Project Muse Pricing Study Results and Revised Pricing," MUSE News (Summer 2004): 1,3; or consult the variations listed for subscriptions to Highwire Press titles (at http://www.highwire.org/tfocis) or American Institute of Physics publications (at http://www.aip.org/journal_catalog/institutions. html).
13. Stern's 1999 NASIG presentation evolved into the article Stern. David, "Pricing Models: Past, Present, and Future?" Serials Librarian 36, no. 1/2 (1999): 301-19.
14. A more recent analysis of trends in pricing model development is offered in Stern. David, "Pricing Models and Payment Schemes for Library Collections." Online (2002): 54-59.
15. More recently Stern considered developments in consortial pricing models in Stern, David, "Comparing Consortial and Differential Pricing Models," The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances 16, no. 4 (2003): 154-56.
16. Ginn, Claire. "Calculating Pricing Models Choices: Rising to the Challenge," Learned Publishing 15, no. 3 (2002): 199-203.
17. Several publishers have undertaken such cost analysis projects, for examples see Kelley, Paul L., "Are There Substantial Cost Savings in Electronic Delivery of Articles in OSA Journals?" Optics and Photonics News 14, no. 11 (2003): 14-15;
18. Garson, Lorrin R., "Communicating Original Research in Chemistry and Related Sciences," Accounts of Chemical Research 37, no. 3 (2004): 141-148.
19. See http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/Classification/index.htm for a description of the Carnegie Classification system.