Betsy Rose, Dimond Library budget creates journal cancellations, The New Hampshire, March 28, 2005. Excerpt: 'Those who wander down to the second floor of the Dimond Library [at the University of New Hampshire] may soon begin to notice the selection of print journals is decreasing on the shelves. The reason for the cancellations of journals is simple. It is because of inflation, according to Judith Brink, head of collection development at the Dimond Library....The inflation of the price of journals domestically has been 10 percent while the foreign inflation of journals has been 15 percent. The average equaling 11 percent inflation in journals, said Claudia J. Morner, Ph.D., the University librarian of the Dimond Library. The problem begins with the fact that the library budget for fiscal year 2004 (a fiscal year begins July 1and ends June 30) was $14,137,246 million while the budget for fiscal year 2005 is $14,618,696 million, which creates an increase of three percent. This means that the journals are inflating faster than the libraries budget, according to Morner....UNH is not the only school going through this. Most schools have been cutting journals, Morner said. "There isn't a library in this area or country that hasn't done it or is going to," Brink said.'
(PS: Letter to the editor: If the article attributes the problem to skyrocketing journal prices, then the title shouldn't attribute the problem to inadequate library budgets.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/29/2005 01:02:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
