ISSN: 1046-3410 NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES NUMBER 25 -- AUGUST 9, 1990 Editor: Marcia Tuttle CONTENTS 25.± FROM THE EDITOR, Marcia Tuttle 25.² 1991 PRICES FOR EUROPEAN JOURNALS, Chuck Hamaker 25.³ ACCESS TO SERIALS: ALA ALCTS SERIALS SECTION PROGRAM, Cindù Hepfer 25.´ FIRST SOVIET-AMERICAN JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY GORDON AND BREACH, Michael Klepper Associates 25.µ WILEY MANEUVERS, Terry Saylor 25.¶ SUNY II-D GRANT FOR TELEFACSIMILE, Susan Davis 25.· TENSOR, Deana Astle 25.¸ HAMAKER'S HAYMAKERS, Chuck Hamaker 25.± FROM THE EDITOR Marcia Tuttle, BITNET: TUTTLE@UNC.BITNET. One of the most-asked questions about the NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRIC- ING ISSUES or, for that matter, any electronic publication, is how it should be cited. This very topic has been a hot issue on PACS-L, Charles Bailey's electronic bulletin board out of the University of Houston Library. I don't want to repeat what is being said there, so I recommend that you subscribe by sending a mail message: subscribe pacs-l, followed by your name, to LISTSERV@UHUPVM1. Or, do as I do: ask a good friend who subscribes to forward relevant items. However, I did ask Sue Dodd, the person who should know most about citing elec- tronic publications, to write a brief piece for the Newsletter, show- ing us how to cite it. Sue's report should be in the next issue. Once again Bill Robnett has done an excellent report on the NASIG Conference (North American Serials Interest Group). His very full coverage of this year's meeting at Brock University appears in the latest NASIG NEWSLETTER, vol. 5, no. 3/4 (July-September 1990). During the seven weeks or so since the last newsletter most of the "news" has been of the short-item variety, and I'll pass it on in this column. Those of you who owe me more substantial pieces know who you are! From Kerry Kresse, KRESSE@WISCMACC.BITNET: A small bit of news -- the International Astronomical Union is changing their style manual for astronomy publications. Among other things, they are following standard abbreviations for most journals, except for the ones that everyone uses. They provide the following list of exceptions: A&A, A&AS, AJ, ApJ, ApJS, ARA&A, AZh, BAAS, JRASC, MNRAS, MmRAS, PASJ, QJRAS, S&T. (This was taken from page 1 of ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, v. 357 (no. 1), July 1, 1990.)Š This sort of thing should be discouraged! I hope to write to Helmut Abt, the managing editor of ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, and try to con- vince him to change his mind. The other style changes they propose are reasonable and will improve the journal. This will complicate most people's lives, especially librarians. I know that the newslet- ter is on pricing, but they are doing this under the auspices of saving space in the journal, hence prices? From Brad Carrington, BCARRING@UKCC.UKY.EDU: I spotted yet another note about our situation in the CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, July 11, p. B3: "There are too many of them (biomed periodicals), they are published too often, they stare from their racks to reproach us for sloth." Both Deana Astle and Anne McKee, DataLinx: GMASONU, sent messages com- plaining about the doubling in price ($45 to $90) of five journals issued by the Speech Communication Association: COMMUNICATION MONO- GRAPHS, COMMUNICATION EDUCATION, CRITICAL STUDIES IN MASS COMMUNICA- TION, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH, and TEXT & PERFORMANCE QUARTERLY. Anne says, "All are considered to be 'core' so we could not cancel after notification of the price increases.... I have just written a letter to the association expressing my concern but I was wondering if any of the other institutions who receive the Newsletter are concerned about this. It's an especially crucial topic in the State of Virginia this year as we are facing what could amount to massive and devastat- ing budget cuts for higher education institutions." Deana says, "There is no indication that these journals have increased in size, and there is no explanation for the hefty jump. It might be interesting to find out if the Association is now having their journals published by a commercial publisher!" Bob Houbeck forwarded a message from Jean Loup, at the University of Michigan: Bob, I have an ad for REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY 4 which states: "By arrangement with the previous publishers, Elsevier Sci- ence Publishers, REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY will now be published by Toxicology Communications, Inc., of Raleigh, North Carolina. TCI will continue to provide timely reviews but at greatly reduced cost. The new prices will be half, or less, than those charged for previous volumes. TCI will also make earlier volumes available at the new price." Mike Renshawe, McGill, sent a photocopy of a page from SCIENCE REFER- ENCE & INFORMATION SCIENCE NEWSLETTER, no. 12 (June 1990), which sum- marizes Robert Maxwell's "fourth Annual Dainton lecture to an invited audience of top industrialists, parliamentarians and figures from the library and information world ..." on March 5, 1990. Here's his title: "Information technology as a way of reducing the costs and time in the dissemination of scientific and technological information." The text of the lecture is available free of charge from: Publications Sales Unit, The British Library, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ England.Š 25.² 1991 PRICES FOR EUROPEAN JOURNALS Chuck Hamaker, Louisianá Statå University¬ NOTCAH@LSUVM.BITNET. Although they held off as long as they could, the major European pub- lishers have this week set exchange rates for their 1991 subscrip- tions. Because the dollar had been so weak much of this season, the traditional July 1st setting was delayed. Elsevier set their rates last Wednesday, the day before Iraq invaded Kuwait, when the dollar reached its second lowest level since World War II. For 1991, Else- vier's rate is 1.78 guilders to the U.S. dollar, about 23 percent below last year's level. Overall, according to Elsevier, this will mean an average increase on their list of about 35 percent in U.S. dollars. Springer-Verlag waited until this week to set rates, and it looks as if they will be at 1.58 DM to the U.S. dollar. Combined with their planned increases, this means an overall dollar increase for Spring- er's European titles of 23 to 24 percent. Individual titles may be above or below these general rates of course, but overall these in- creases are the worst we have seen in any single year this decade. For those of you interested, Elsevier Sequoia titles will be available through New York and most subscription agencies with an exchange rate of 1.35 Swiss Franks, or 23 percent more than last year (plus "infla- tion"); British titles from Elsevier will use a pound sterling rate of 1.85 (it was about 1.70 last year); and the French Franc is at 5.34. On June 29, 1990, James Kels sent out his annual letter to libraries describing the whys and wherefores of the Dutch Guilder increases. If you did not get a copy, contact John Tagler at Elsevier (phone: (212) 989-5800). That letter does not set the exchange rate, but it explains reasons for their "inflation." Estimates on Pergamon are still pretty iffy, and as I have seen no price lists I can only repeat pure unmitigated rumors, i.e., expect close to 20 percent. But time will tell if that is true or not. 25.³ ACCESS TO SERIALS: ALA ALCTS SERIALS SECTION PROGRAM      Cindù Hepfer¬ Healtè Scienceó Library¬ Statå Universitù oæ Ne÷      Yorë aô Buffalo¬ Abbotô Hall¬ Buffalï NÙ 14214. The house was packed for the ALCTS Serials Section program at ALA. The topic, "Access to Serials," interested a wide cross-section of ALA attendees. Serials Section chair, Suzanne Striedieck, presided. David Cohen, Director of the College of Charleston Library, opened the program by posing the question, "Are we ready for access?" Cohen said that libraries are trying to provide "access to excess," and that librarians have much to learn about the ownership/access needs of scholars and students. He noted that while the primacy of subject searching has been established, the access model is rooted in known item searching, and online catalogs cannot be searched serendipitous- ly. Cohen pointed out that comprehensive access in the form of loading Šcommercial index/abstract services into online catalogs is expensive, and librarians are trading one set of costs for another. The Wilson indexes, for instance, cost ten times more in their online form than they do in paper. Becky Lenzini, President of CARL Systems, Inc., discussed document delivery issues. She said that the important thing is not whether a library owns something, but whether it can get its users what they need. CARL in effect creates a union list of articles. Patrons can go directly to the library holding the copy of the article they need, request a copy of any article by traditional interlibrary loan means, or make an online request for a FAX of any article, charging the cost to their MasterCard or Visa! CARL is working actively with the Copy- right Clearance Center as, for these purposes, FAXing is considered to be the same thing as photocopying. Clifford Lynch, Director of the University of California Division of Library Automation, compared retrospective conversion of monographic titles with retrospective conversion of the contents of journals held by libraries. He noted that if libraries were to do retrospective conversions of their journal contents, the transitional period would be much longer and harder than it proved to be for monograph conver- sion. The alternative is to load ready-made databases into online catalogs. The University of California has loaded both Medline and Current Contents onto its MELVYL system. With three years of Medline loaded, the system sees some 50,000 searches per week on that data- base. Current Contents has been up only one month, but already is being searched at the rate of 25,000 queries a week. Lynch wondered whether once these databases are deemed as being valuable their pro- ducers will increase the prices! As someone with significant experience in loading commercial databases into an online catalog, Lynch offered a review of some resulting prob- lems. First, commercial databases are bibliographies with non-campus specific coverage, loaded into catalogs which cover what any given library/library system owns. This combination often leaves users quite confused. Second, libraries pay for the same citation numerous times in different databases. He noted that it would be nice to combine the citation data from various databases in order to provide the earliest possible access and multiple subject headings, but licensing agree- ments prohibit this. Third, librarians need to think about the rela- tionship between catalogs, databases, and collections. Until document delivery options catch up with instant access, the importance of own- ing any given title in the local collection will remain. Lynch does not see CD-ROMs as offering a concrete alternative since there are problems with the networking technology, and scholars cannot access them from their offices or homes. Online access, on the other hand, can be used to provide current awareness services and can even be linked to scholars' workstations, an important forward step. 25.´ FIRST SOVIET-AMERICAN JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY GORDON AND BREACH      Franë Forestieri/Vické Banner¬ Michaeì Kleppeò Associates¬ Inc.¬      80µ Thirä Avenue¬ Ne÷ Yorë NÙ 10022» (212© 54´-1100. ŠNEW YORK, July 9 -- The Institute for Policy Studies announced that it is citing Gordon and Breach, an international publisher of scientific journals, for its contribution to detente between the United States and the Soviet Union in its upcoming "Citizen Diplomats: Americans Ending the Cold War." Gordon and Breach, recognized by the Washington Institute, published "Science & Global Security: The Technical Basis for Arms Control and Environmental Policy Initiatives," the first Soviet-American academic journal. "Science & Global Security," is the culmination of four years of col- laboration on arms control and environmental issues by its co-chair- men, Frank Von Hippel, an American physicist at Princeton's Center for Environmental Studies, and Roald Sagdeev, former director of the Sovi- et Space Research Institute. The quarterly journal is published simultaneously in English and Rus- sian. 25.µ WILEY MANEUVERS      Calleä tï ouò attentioî bù Terrù Sayler¬ Serialó Unit¬ Acquisi      tionó Department¬ McKeldiî Library¬ Universitù oæ Maryland¬ Col      legå Parë MÄ 20742. Here's another publisher joining THE GANG with a new twist on added volumes and their cost. The following letter is dated June 29, 1990, on the John Wiley & Sons, Inc., letterhead: Dear Subscriber: We have exciting news concerning the JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE. The time between acceptance of articles and publication is to be drastically reduced to optimize our service to authors and readers. Since the new editors assumed leadership in the autumn of 1988, the numbers and quality of papers submitted has continued to increase. Although this was desirable and predictable in view of the immense growth in applied polymer science and the attendant need to dissemi- nate information, it has led to a dilemma. To address the need for more timely publication, the editors and John Wiley & Sons will publish an extra volume (#41) of 12 issues of the JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE in 1990. This additional volume will be billed as part of your 1991 subscription. You will receive the bill in summer in order to expedite publication. This plan will assure that new submissions are published more promptly. We will publish the usual two volumes in 1991, but in a new, expand- ed 8 1/2 x 11 format, which provides 30 percent more information per issue. Our immediate goal is to achieve expeditious editorial review and a concomitantly efficient publication process. While effecting this Š greater speed, we will not, of course, reduce in any way our commit- ment to the highest scientific quality. This extra-volume publication is unusual for Wiley. We value our relationships with our subscribers and realize that this unplanned volume may present administrative and financial difficulties at your institution. However, we hope you will agree with our decision to publish more rapidly to provide both our authors and readers with not only the best but also the most current research articles in the field. Also, please realize that Volume 41 is priced at the 1990 price per volume, that is $648 (U.S.). The 1991 Volumes, 42 and 43, are priced at $1595. Your total 1991 subscription price is $2243, less than 16 cents per page. If you have any questions regarding your subscription to the JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE please contact our subscription fulfill- ment department: Susan Malawski, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York NY 10158-0012; Phone (212) 850-6646; FAX (212) 850- 6088. Sincerely yours, Stephen Kippur Group Vice President And on the same letterhead, same date: Dear Subscriber: We have exciting news concerning BIOPOLYMERS. The time between ac- ceptance of articles and publications is to be drastically reduced to optimize our service to authors and readers. The number and quality of manuscripts submitted to BIOPOLYMERS has continued to increase. Since the beginning of this year we have published BIOPOLYMERS in a new, expanded 8 1/2 x 11 inch format, which provides 30 percent more information per issue. And to further enhance the speed of publication, we have recently been publishing double issues, with twice the usual number of pages per month. Al- though this is desirable and predictable in view of the immense growth in research on biopolymers and the attendant need to dissemi- nate information, it has led to a dilemma. To further address the need for more timely publication, the editors and John Wiley & Sons will publish an extra volume (#30) of BIOPOLY- MERS. This additional volume will be published from the Fall of 1990 through the Spring of 1991 and will be billed as part of your 1991 subscription. You will receive the bill in Summer in order to expe- dite publication. This plan will assure that new submissions are published more promptly. The regularly scheduled Volume 31 will also be published complete in 1991. Our immediate goal is to achieve a more efficient and timely publi-Š cation process. While effecting this greater speed, we will not, of course, reduce in any way our commitment to the highest scientific quality. This extra-volume publication is unusual for Wiley. We value our relationship with our subscribers and realize that this unplanned volume may present administrative and financial difficulties at your institution. However, we hope you will agree with our decision to publish more rapidly to provide both our authors and readers with not only the best but also the most current research articles in the field. Also, please realize that Volume 30 is priced at the 1990 price per volume, that is $775 (U.S.). The 1991 Volume 31 is priced at $800. Your total 1991 subscription price is $1575, less than 35 cents per page. If you have any questions ... ...and so on, identical to the first letter. And this in the same year as the previously-mentioned European price increases! Wonder how many similar letters Kippur wrote on June 29? 25.¶ SUNY II-D GRANT FOR TELEFACSIMILE Susan Davis, SUNY-Buffalo, DataLinx: SDAVIS. The State University of New York at Buffalo (hereafter referred to as UB) Libraries were awarded $175,746 for a U.S. Department of Education Title II-D research and demonstration grant to investigate the impact of telefacsimile and optical scanning technologies on collection de- velopment and resource sharing. We felt that before research libraries can incorporate telefacsimile and optical scanning technologies into interlibrary loan, document delivery operations, and resource sharing, a thorough and comprehensive evaluation of these technologies must be conducted. Three different tests will be run as part of the project: the first will involve inter-campus and intra-campus transmittal of journal articles at UB (we have two main campuses); the second will involve the four SUNY University Centers (the others are at Bingham- ton, Stony Brook, and Albany); and the final test will involve UB and local Western New York Corporations. The project is to run for two years, and the first phase began in January 1990. Two hundred eighteen journal titles were selected to be temporarily removed from the open stacks. (These are titles held in common by all four university centers, to avoid the copyright ques- tion.) All bound volumes, or pre-1988 issues were removed to a closed stack area. Signs have been placed in the stacks to alert users to seek assistance in obtaining needed articles; our inhouse union list of serials has been annotated as well. Journals from a variety of subject disciplines were selected for inclusion because we did not want to inconvenience any one group of users and so that we can deter- mine whether there is a difference in the use of information in dif- ferent areas which would indicate a greater acceptance of FAXing and scanning.Š Users request articles on specially designed forms, and the FAXed copies are provided within 24 hours free of charge. While browsing as we normally think of it is not possible, users may request tables of contents. If the user has his own FAX, the requested article can be FAXed directly to him. Soon the libraries will begin providing micro- computer-compatible ASCII text files created by scanning requested articles as an alternative to FAXed copies. It is still too soon to offer any real evaluation, but my own observa- tions have been that this type of project can tie up a FAX machine for hours at a time (FAXing is much slower than photocopying), and that many users lament not being able to look through the journals them- selves. For more information contact Steve Roberts or Robert Bertholf, two of the three principal investigators. Steve, Associate Director of Li- braries, can be reached at UNLSMR@UBVMS.BITNET or (716) 636-2965. Bob is the Curator of our Poetry/Rare Books Collection, and is at (716) 636-2917. 25.· TENSOR Deana Astle, Clemson University, BITNET: DLAST@CLEMSON. While checking our records for volumes needing claiming, we discovered that volumes 45 and 46 of TENSOR had not been received. In response to our claim, the publisher -- The Tensor Society, located at the Kawagu- chi Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Japan -- stated that though these volumes were numbered consecutively with the journal, they were, in fact, "extra" volumes, which were charged separately. These "com- memoration" volumes were published in memory of the founder of the Tensor Society' they consisted of 344 and 438 pages, respectively, and cost $260 each or $500 for both -- unless we ordered them through our subscription vendor, which would cost us more. We decided to opt out and put a note in our OPAC saying that these were festschriften and were not purchased. The practice of including in its numbering system issues not germane to the primary goals and mission of a journal ensures greater distri- bution for these pieces than if they were issued as separates, but it raises costs to libraries which might be trying to "complete a set" and be unaware of exactly what they are buying. Publishers use this same tactic when creating a monographic series -- libraries will create a standing order to be sure they get "the whole series" and do not "miss anything," claiming missing pieces because they and the faculty do not like to see gaps in the holdings state- ment. We need to be alert to practices which entice us to buy what we really do not need or want. At least the Tensor Society did not send the "extra" volumes as part of the subscription and charge accordingly; however, many libraries probably did buy them anyway just to complete the set.Š 25.¸ HAMAKER'S HAYMAKERS Chuck Hamaker, Louisiana State University, BITNET: NOTCAH@LSUVM. The Society for Scholarly Publishing held its annual meeting June 5-8 in San Francisco. Along with presentations by international members of the publishing community, including Robert Campbell of Blackwell Sci- entific, Sara Miller McCune, chairman and publisher (Sage Publica- tions) called in a number of librarians to make presentations to the group. Richard Dougherty, ALA president, provided a wrap-up session for the group in which, among other things, he coined the phrase the "hamaker syndrome." The phrase suggests the types of concerns that yours truly raised in a speech outlining the last four years of re- search and thinking in the library community's attempts to make sense out of the system of scholarly publishing. The liveliest moment of the first day's session was probably a heated exchange between Mark Mandelbaum, publications director for the Asso- ciation for Computing Machinery) and Charles Hamaker. Hamaker's dander was raised when Mandelbaum announced that libraries' financial prob- lems could be solved if students and professors were charged fees for services rendered each time they use the library. There will be many more articles in the literature covering this con- ference, but the first one in press is PW's July 20, 1990 issue, page 14. (See also John Tagler's report in the July-September NASIG NEWS- LETTER. --ed.) The ARL NEWSLETTER for July 4, 1990, introduces a new format and a major change in content. If this new issue is any indication of the future, every publisher and every library should get a subscription (and ARL should -- I shudder to suggest -- establish a non-member rate; make it reasonable, folks!). The lead article, "Scholarly Pub- lishing and the NREN," by Ann Okerson of the Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing is a must read for anyone worried about where the future can lead us. It is a revised text of a talk given by Okerson at the inaugural meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information, which includes ARL/CAUSE/EDUCOM and 75 institutions representing a total of 81 members. In addition, the Coalition now includes Elsevier and Pergamon. The Coalition is housed at ARL headquarters. Although I understand much of the Coalition meeting was the techies, Okerson's speech addressed squarely the issues of the future in scholarly com- munication. Her summary of present issues is insightful: concentration of ownership; vigorous copyright enforcement efforts from publishers; concentration of costs; ownership of scholarly materials. She calls on CNI to: 1) Draft a broad statement of principles guiding scholarly publishing in the network; 2) Advise on commercialization; 3) Identify issues and formulate guidelines for network publishing; 4) Develop ownership and copyright policies; 5) Review academic incentives (for publication). Overall the coalition must actively support scholarly publishing on the emerging network, including comprehensive access to a community of researchers. Clearly Okerson is leading the way in thinking about these issues. I commend her article to all and sundry, and hope that this new direction for the ARL NEWSLETTER is sustained. Š (Okerson has indicated a willingness to send Newsletter readers a copy of her complete talk. Her address: Ann Okerson, Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington DC 20036; Phone: (202) 232-2466; FAX: (202) 462-7849. --ed.) Also significant for us laymen is the article, "Federal Information in an Age of Electronic Communication," by Angie LeClerq (pp. 6+). The discussion in that article of AG-NET being handed to Martin Marietta Data Systems will make some blood boil, I expect. If this is what privatization means, you may understand why government document li- brarians and collection development librarians are very worried. In an unusual article -- unusual because of who wrote it, not what it says -- the MLA BULLETIN has in its new issue "Journal Pricing Issues: An Economic Perspective." It is unusual because the authors are two MBA's and Arthur W. Hafner, Ph. D., all of the American Medical Asso- ciation. Hafner is director of AMA's Division of Library and Informa- tion Management, Thomas Podsadecki is a staff associate at AMA, and William P. Whitely is the assistant division director for information management of AMA. A conclusion these authors reach, which may mean more to some publishers than if librarians had said it, was that "since one of the underpinnings of education is threatened by reduc- tions in library collections, actions must be taken by publishers, librarians, faculty, and professional associations to ameliorate the present situation and to limit additional increases in serial prices." (BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, vol. 78, no. 3 (July 1990): 217-23.) Up and coming news to watch includes the bill given final Congression- al approval on June 26, which makes state universities and their em- ployees subject to lawsuits for any infringements for copyrighted works. In connection with this new law, which effectively voids 11th amendment protection for state institutions regarding copyright (see PUBLISHERS WEEKLY July 13, 1990, p. 10), Nicholas Veliotes, president of AAP, was apparently referring to this new law when he addressed the Book Industry Study Group on June 20th in New York. Veliotes mentioned "copyright infringement suits involving copying by state universities, Texaco, and Kinko." (PW, July 13, p. 15) Although the Kinko and Texaco suits are currently in play, I am unaware of any current copyright suits against state universities. Was Veliotes signalling AAP's inten- tions?? Once again, time will tell. Kenneth D. Crews has just finished a doctoral dissertation at UCLA which analyzed 183 written copyright policies from 98 research univer- sities. One of the surprising findings from his work, university legal counsel, administrators, and librarians have very different fair use standards that contradict their standard "images." Librarians tend to be more restrictive, while lawyers and administrators are more leni- ent. "A recent copyright infringement suit against Kinko's Copies has forced reexamination of fair use for educational needs and this dis- sertation ... provides the first in-depth analysis of copyright stand- ards from leading universities." Contact Kenneth D. Crews (408) 924- 1324 for further information. He is at the School of Business, Depart-Šment of Organization and Management, San Jose State University, San Jose CA 95192-0070. The above report is excerpted from a news release from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UCLA, August 1, 1990. The release alone is worth reading. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Readers of the NEWSLETTER ON SERIALS PRICING ISSUES are encouraged to share the information in the newsletter by electronic or paper meth- ods. 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