Response by Tony Seward to Steve McKinzie’s Opinion in "Rough Seas and The Journal of Academic Librarianship" | 2001

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Summary:

"Response by Tony Seward to Steve McKinzie’s Opinion in "Rough Seas and The Journal of Academic Librarianship: Differing Opinions by Two Academic Librarians"

OPINION #1: ROW STRAIGHT AHEAD”

While welcoming Steve McKinzie's support for The Journal of Academic Librarianship (LIBRES 2001 Volume 11 Issue 1; March 31) we would like to make one purely factual correction, and to offer a price comparison, in order to clarify the situation for your readers. ...Thus it becomes apparent that Elsevier was not responsible for the substantial 1998/9 price increase, subsequently held the price steady for two years, and only introduced an increase in 2001.

We also welcome this opportunity to examine the claims on price made for JAL's new competitor, portal: Libraries and the Academy. The publicity for portal emphasises that its launch is to serve "as a rallying cry against inflated journal pricing".  Although it is too early to make an exact comparison on a price per page basis, since portal has so far only published two issues, it is worth making the point that issue for issue JAL is cheaper than portal.  The institutional price for a print-only subscription to JAL is $208 as against $148 for portal, but the former has 6 issues, while the latter is quarterly.  The comparative price per issue therefore works out as $34.67 for JAL, as against $37 for portal.  We have deliberately focused on the pricing for print-only, since comparisons between the electronic-only and print + electronic options available for each journal would be too complicated and lengthy to undertake here.  However, with the range of electronic options offered by Elsevier through ScienceDirect, we are confident that such comparisons will be equally favourable to The Journal of Academic Librarianship...."

LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research

Electronic Journal ISSN 1058-6768

2001 Volume 11 Issue 2; September 30

Bi-annual LIBRES 11N2

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https://web.archive.org/web/20011224160742/http://libres.curtin.edu.au/LIBRE11N2/

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08/02/2018, 10:00

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08/02/2018, 06:00