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- Reports and indexes by source
- Chart of reports by format and country of origin
- Chronological index by release date
- List of Abbreviations
- GDP Deflator (updated 11/21/2001--ViewsWire 5 yr. forecast)
Foreign Language Aids
- Currency Converters on the Web
- "Exchange rates for Yale University Library" can be located by searching this phrase on Orbis or by searching the Orbis record number:
ltyl fin jx exchange rates for yale university library
ltyl fin fgp1278
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- Glossary of bibliographic information by language, Technical Services, Queens University
Covers Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.- Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Danish, Portuguese, Afrikaans, and Esperanto interactive online dictionaries.
Beyond Yale
- Books in Print Pages on the Web, Research Services and Collections
- Journals Cost Update, Kline Science Library
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- AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers & Vendors
In addition to this directory, AcqWeb's home page has other useful links.- AAP Member Company List
Maintained by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Includes links to web pages for those publishers that have them.- Publishers' Catalogues Home Page
Access by country, with international listings and links to book fairs.- Publishers on the Internet, Faxon.
A-Z listing by publisher's name.- Readmore's Information Library
A collection of resources for serials and acquisitions practitioners.- WESSWEB: Western European Specialists Section (ACRL)
See French, German, Iberian, and Italian Studies for access to information about publishers, vendors, and the indigenous booktrade.
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- U.S. Periodical Prices--2002 by Barbara Albee and Brenda Dingley. American Libraries, 2002.
- U.S. Periodical Prices-2002 Table I:Subject Categories Ranked by Average 2002 Subscription Price
- U.S. Periodical Prices-2002 Table II: Subject Categories Ranked by Annual Subscription
- U.S. Serials Services Price Index--2002, by Nancy Chaffin and Ajaye Bloomstone, American Libraries, 2002.
- What is a price index? Ask Britannica Online.
- Cutbacks in Library Materials Purchasing: OSC Quick SPEC Survey
Each year since 1990, ARL's Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing has sent a Quick-SPEC survey to assess member library response to journal price increases. The articles that appeared in the ARL Newsletter analysing each year's survey results appear at this site in reverse chronological order.- Lynden, Frederick C. "Prices of Foreign Library Materials: A Report," College & Research Libraries, Vol. 49, May 1988: 217-231.
Reports on sources for price data from European countries, in particular France, Germany, and the Netherlands; also discusses international price standards and methodologies.
See also: Austin, Ronald E. "Indexing Price Trends of French Academic Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences," College & Research Libraries, Vol. 55, Jan. 1994: 37-40.- Okerson, Ann. "Periodical Prices: A History and Discussion," Advances in Serials Management, Vol.1, Nov., 1986: 101-34.
- University Libraries and Scholarly Communication, a study prepared for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation by Anthony M. Cummings, Marcia L. Witte, William G. Bowen, Laura O. Lazarus, and Richard H. Ekman. Washington, DC: ARL, November 1992.
Chapter on Book and Serial PricingStaying current
- Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues
- Covers library serials pricing interpreted broadly, including journal pricing projections, library cancellation projects, journal publisher and subscription agent efforts to reduce costs, electronic publishing, etc. Edited by Marcia Tuttle at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since its inception in February 1989. Full-text and archive available on the Internet.
- Citations for Serial Literature
- Citations for Serial Literature is an electronic index which publishes the table of contents and abstracts, when available, of articles related to the serials information chain. Covers Advances in Serials Management, CONSERline, Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, NASIG Newsletter, and Serials Review, among others. Edited and published by Marilyn Geller (Readmore), it is possible to receive notification of new issues by e-mail.
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