Citation
(2003), "A poll on the cost of e journal administration", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 31 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.2003.12231aab.012
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
A poll on the cost of e journal administration
A poll on the cost of e journal administration
Rollo Turner recently conducted a poll of members of an e-mail list on the costs of e-journal administration with some, perhaps predictable, results. Among them were:
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Have your costs for e-Journal administration risen over the last year and roughly by how much? Responses varied from "becoming increasingly costly" to "maybe as much a £40,000 per year". Measuring the increase in costs was difficult but all respondents seemed to think that costs of administration were rising.
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Do you see this increasing/decreasing over the next year? Only one respondent thought that costs might decrease in the future "due to reducing time spent on print" but this was expressed as a hope not reality so far. All other respondents expected costs to increase.
One respondent pointed out "that smaller publishers subscriptions have sometimes been cancelled in favour of big deals and this librarian would prefer to move away from such deals". Rollo Turner is contactable at www.subscription-agents.org. soon.
Source: Rollo Turner on LIS-E-JOURNALS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK