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Against the Grain

Report: Book Pricing Update -- The Year in Book Pricing and Publishing -- 1995 by Celia Wagner (Blackwell North America)
Frequency & Release Date: Annual in the September issue.
Location for Yale Selectors: Copy available to Yale Library selectors in Ann Okerson's office.
Content: Based on monographic publishing for the academic market, this report considers new books treated through Blackwell's approval program. It cites broad trends in pricing and coverage (U.S. origin, U.K. origin, and "other" origin prices); broad trends by subject area (Humanities and the Arts; Social Science; and S/T/M/); highlights of 1996; and future price predictions. Provides table of average book prices over a 6-year period, including the latest 5-year average. Recommends using either the latest 5-year average or the historical average to predict price increases.
See also:
Blackwell North America's Approval Program Coverage and Cost Study
Against the Grain homepage, including Table of Contents for 1995 to present; list of memorable articles, interviews, and profiles.

American Libraries

Report: U.S. Periodical Price Index
Frequency & Release Date: Annual in the May issue since 1993; appeared in the April issue of Library Journal through 1992, except in 1985 when the report appeared in the August issue.
Location for Yale Selectors: Copy available to Yale Library selectors in Ann Okerson's office.
Content: This is the 36th annual USPPI study sponsored by the Library Materials Price Index Committee (LMPIC) of ALA's Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) and the 12th consecutive year in which subscription price information supplied, compiled and analyzed by the Faxon Company serves as the basis for the price index.

Uses a selected sample of 3,941 periodical titles published in the U.S. that meet the definition of ANSI Z39.20-1983 (excludes newspapers). Publishers' list prices serve as the basis of subscription price information from the Faxon database. Includes discussion of statistics from the following tables:

See also: Summary information from this index appears in the Bowker Annual; Faxon.

Report: U.S. Serial Services Price Index for 1997
Frequency & Release Date: Annual in the May issue since 1993; appeared in the April issue of Library Journal through 1992, except in 1985 when the report appeared in the August issue.
Location for Yale Selectors: Copy available to Yale Library selectors in Ann Okerson's office.
Content: This is the 36th annual survey of USSSPI sponsored by ALA/ALCTS LMPIC, working with Faxon. The data used is primarily from Faxon, supplemented by H.W. Wilson Company, and covers 1,280 titles. Tables present number of titles, average price, price change and index from 1977 to 1996 by five broad subject areas (business, general & humanities, law, science & technology, social sciences), U.S. documents, and overall (excluding Russian translations). A separately compiled Wilson Index covers 19 titles based on prices paid by subscribers.
See also: Summary information from this index appears in the Bowker Annual.

Baker & Taylor

Report: Book Price Report
Frequency & Release Date: Monthly.
Location for Yale Selectors: Online.
Content: Gives data by LC Class and Subject in the following categories: Titles Shipped 1995, Average List Price 1995, Total List Price 1995, Titles Shipped 1994, Average List Price 1994, Total List Price 1994, Variance 1994-95. Pricing information provided according to the following categories: See also: Baker & Taylor homepage.

Blackwell North America

Report: US Approval Program Coverage and Cost Study 2000/01
Frequency & Release Date: Annual in August in print copy and in September on the Internet.
Location for Yale Selectors: Online.
Contents: The introduction discusses broad trends in prices by country of origin (U.S., U.K. and other) and by broad subject (Arts/Humanities; Social Sciences; Science/Technology/Medicine). The number of titles treated by "non-subject characteristics" (i.e. academic level, type of edition, language of book, etc.) is provided. The main report is divided into two sections: all publisher approval coverage and university press approval coverage only. Within each of these, tables are organized by primary subject coverage or by LC classification. The number of books, total list price, and average list prices are given for both new editions and reprints.
See also: Against the Grain.

Report: Blackwell's & Readmore's 1998 Journal Price Increase Forecast
Frequency & Release Date: Annual, typically released in June. Appears to have been discontinued.
Location for Yale Selectors:
Content: Provides average journal price increases for U.K., European and U.S. publishers with additional tables arranged by currency to illustrate what level of inflation a typical library in the U.K., Europe, U.S., Canada, and Australia would enco unter. A third table depicts the overall impact on journal price increases allowing for currency and journal mix by these same categories of libraries.

See also: Blackwell North America homepage.

The Bowker Annual Library and Book Trade Almanac

Report: Prices of U.S. and Foreign Published Materials by Gay N. Dannelly (LMPIC)
Frequency & Release Date: Annual, typically released in June.
Location for Yale Selectors: Copy available to Yale Library selectors in Ann Okerson's office.
Content: Sponsored by ALA/ALCTS, LMPIC covers U.S. published materials in the following categories: periodicals, serial services, U.S. hardcover books, North American academic books, college books, mass market paperback books, trade paperback books, daily newspapers, nonprint media, and CD-ROMs. A section on foreign prices considers U.S. purchasing power abroad and British, German, Dutch, and Latin American prices. Primarily statistical tables with accompanying brief analysis. See also: American Libraries; SALALM Newsletter; Faxon

Report: Book Title Output and Average Prices: 1995 Final and 1996 Preliminary Figures by Gary Ink (Research Librarian, Publishers Weekly)
Frequency & Release Date: Annual in June.
Location for Yale Selectors: Copy available to Yale Library selectors in Ann Okerson's office.
Content: Covers American book title production in hardcover and trade paperback; paperbacks (excluding mass market); mass market paperbacks; imported titles; and translations into English. Price data includes:

Buch und Buchhandel in Zahlen

Report: Chapter 8 covers book prices.
Frequency & Release Date: Annual; received in the Fall.
Location for Yale Selectors: Copy available to Yale Library selectors in Ann Okerson's office.
Content: Extensive statistical reports and analysis of the German booktrade, including output and price information for German books. Chapter 8 provides four-year historical overview of total German book production and percent price increase; average price per title and price increase in 65 subject categories; and percent of titles in 65 subject categories by price ranges.

Choice

Report: College Book Price Information, 1996 by Donna Alsbury (Florida Center for Library Automation)
Frequency & Release Date: Annual in the March or April issue.
Location for Yale Selectors: Copy available to Yale Library selectors in Ann Okerson's office.
Content: Prepared under sponsorship of the LMPIC of ALCTS, ALA and based on 6,642 reviews that appeared in Choice in the 1996 calendar year. Excludes 58 titles that are free or cost more than $499, appear in nonbook formats, are distributed by the U.S. G.P.O., or appear in electronic media. Tables include:

EBSCO

Report: Year 2002 Serials Price Projections and Cost History
Frequency & Release Date: Serials Box  quarterly newsletter, with most recent issues on the Internet; the 1999 serials price projections appeared in the April/May/June 1998 issue.
Location for Yale Selectors: Online.
Content: Projections and analysis of serials prices, including a table with projected price increases by customer billing currency for both U.S. and European journals.

Report: Serials Prices 1992-1996, with Projections for 1997
Frequency & Release Date: Annual in March/April (by request from EBSCO), with customized projections sent to clients in January.
Content: Historical study of journal prices and subscription list costs for nine types of libraries, including Academic Research Libraries. Data is based on a merged list of titles ordered by several representative libraries invoiced in U.S. dollars. Gives average number of titles, average cost per title, and percent change over the prior year for U.S. and non-U.S. titles. Other charts illustrate the total cost of a typical subscription list; the percentage of total list cost represented by U.S. and non-U.S. titles; and the annual percentage of change in journal costs for U.S. and non-U.S. titles compared to exchange rate fluctuations.
See also: Periodical Price Survey in Library Journal.

Report: Index Medicus Price Study
Frequency & Release Date: Annual since 1991 in the summer by EBSCO and published in Serials Review in the Fall issue.
See: Serials Review.

See also: EBSCO homepage.

Faxon

Report: Faxon Report
Frequency & Release Date: Bimonthly newsletter available from Winter 1996 to present.
Location for Yale Selectors: Online.

Faxon Institute
Contains industry analysis, esp. on e-journals and licensing resources.

Faxon Company Faxon Canada See also: Faxon data is used to compile the U.S. Periodical Price Index that appears in American Libraries as well as the Bowker Annual. The report in Library Acquisitions: Practice and Experience on periodical prices, using Faxon data, has been suspended. Faxon homepage.

Harrassowitz

Report: Price Comparison of STM Journals 1998-2002

Frequency & Release Date: Issued as a press release in September, but updated regularly on the web.
Location for Yale Selectors: Online.
Content: Provides a price increase comparison for two to three consecutive years for seven (an increase for 1999 of three) publishers for all science, technology and medicine journals that they publish, giving the number of titles, their cost, their average price, and the percent increase. A second table shows the impact of these increases on eight specific libraries, two each in the following categories: general academic, including sci-tech libraries; general academic, mostly humanities and social sciences libraries; medical libraries; and sci-tech libraries. Beginning in 1999, Harrassowitz is making available the dates when firm pricing was received from major publishers; see below.

Report: German Academic Books: Average Prices and Price Index
See: Bowker Annual; Harrassowitz homepage
See also: Price Comparison of STM Journals 2000/2001/2002
           Price Comparison of STM Journals 1999/2000/2001

Inflation Measures for Schools, College and Libraries

Report: Academic Library Price Index
Frequency & Release Date: Updated annually and published in early fall by Research Associates of Washington DC.
Content: Chapter 3 constitutes the Academic Library [Current Operations and Acquisitions] Price Index (ALPI) and is part of the Higher Education Price Index (HEPI). ALPI treats the budget composition of college and university library operations in the following categories: personnel compensation, acquisitions, and contracted services, supplies and equipment. Acquisitions are grouped into two broad groups--books and periodicals, and other materials. The books and periodicals category is subdivided into: U.S. college books--using the Choice index as its basis and calculated in the national ALPI report as 20% of purchases; North American academic books, using LMPIC's index which appears in the Bowker Annual as its basis and calculated at 20% of acquisitions; Foreign books, using Library of Congress data, and calculated at 10% of acquisitions; U.S. periodicals, using the USSPI, Faxon data, through 1991 and currently using EBSCO data, and calculated at 40% of acquisitions; and foreign periodicals, using Faxon data through 1991, and currently using EBSCO data, and calculated at 10% of acquisitions. Because the national report's percentage of acquisitions in each of these categories differs from those of most research libraries, Yale Library has used the diskette version of ALPI which permits locally assigned percentages tailored to local expenditure categories. The assumptions made for Yale acquisitions from General Account funds for the last three fiscal years was a rough 16% of acquisitions being domestic books and 22% being foreign books. In addition, of the domestic books, 40% were to be college level and 60% were assumed to be academic level. The serial percentages were 39% domestic and 23% foreign.

infolibro

Report: El libro español continua en ascenso (to 1998)
Frequency & Release Date: This appears to have been a one-time publication by infolibro, issued in or sometime after 1998.
Location for Yale Selectors: Online.
Content: infolibro, a cooperative effort of principal organizations in the Spanish book trade, is made up of CEGAL (Confederación de Gremios y Asociaciones de Libreros), FGEE (Federación de Gremios de Editores de España), and FANDE (Federación de Asociaciones Nacionales de Distribuidores de Edición.
The report includes a narrative overview of the recent book trade, along with charts and graphs showing import and export statistics for 1984-1998, as well as numbers of titles by language.

Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory

Report: Periodical Prices, 1991 - 1993 by Adrian W. Alexander (Faxon)
Frequency & Release Date: Published annually by Faxon from 1974 until 1994. From 1974 to 1980, issued in Library Journal; from 1981 to 1990 in The Serials Librarian; and from 1991-1994 in Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory. Due to conversion related to new subscription processing system at Faxon, no reports were issued in 1995 and 1996. Feasibility of a revamped study, based on a core list of 12,000 titles rather than on the entire Faxon database, is under consideration.
Content: The most recent report, issued in 1994, had extensive tables with three-year comparisons of average prices by LC classification and by country of publication. Price per title and percent change by abstract and index; average subscription price and periodical price ranges by type of library, as well as U.S. domestic and foreign title subscription price comparison charts.
See Also: Alexander, Adrian. "Serial Pricing in the International Market: Fifteen Years of Faxon Experience," Library Administration and Management, Winter 1990: 27-32. Copy available to Yale Library selectors in Ann Okerson's office.

Library Association Record

Report: Annual Periodical Prices for 1996
Frequency & Release Date: Annual in the May issue since 1977; June 1976 and August 1966-75.
Content: Based on a broad selection of journals made by B.H. Blackwell's Periodicals Division to reflect the purchases in specialized and academic libraries, irrespective of language, price or country of origin. Intended as a guide to trends, primarily for the use of U.K. libraries. In each table listed below, covers the number of titles, % increase over 1995, the index (base is 1970), and the average 1996 price in pounds sterling.

Library Journal

Report: Periodical Price Survey 1996 by Lee Ketcham (University of Montevallo) and Kathleen Born (EBSCO)
Frequency & Release Date: Annual in April 15 issue since 1993.
Content: This is referred to as the 36th annual report only because it continues the consecutive numbering of earlier studies by Faxon, which now appear in American Libraries. Core study based on 4,957 titles from three ISI databases--Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Science Citation Index, reflecting subscription lists of research libraries. Two thousand journals indexed in EBSCO publishing's Academic Search serve as the basis of a separate analysis for smaller academic libraries. Public and school libraries are covered by a brief analysis of Magazine Article Summaries, a popular-periodical index of EBSCO publishing. Price history and other information is derived from EBSCO Subscription Services' database of more than 256,000 serials title listings. Discussion of trends precipitated by technology, including the proliferation of electronic journals; cost trends by discipline and by country of origin; and the foreign-domestic price gap.

Summary of tables:

J.A. Majors Co.

Report: Majors Statistical Summary: New Book Receipts Report for Medical Librarians
Frequency & Release Date: Appears on a semi-annual basis in newsletter to clients, "A Major Report," summer and winter issues.
Content: Lists number of titles, (numbered series), percent of total list, value of list, and average list price by publisher and by subject categories for medical libraries.
See also: J.A. Majors Co. homepage

Publishers Weekly

Report: Output Bounced Back in '94 by Gary Ink (Publishers Weekly)
Frequency & Release Date: Annual. Formerly appeared in the first week of March issue, but now likely to appear in mid to late Spring. (1994 final data appeared in April 22, 1996 issue.)
Content: Prepared for Publishers Weekly by R.R. Bowker, gives 1994 final American book title production numbers and price per volume. Tables include: See also:Publishers Weekly homepage

SALALM Newsletter

Report: Number of Copies and Average Cost of Latin American Books Purchased by Seven Selected U.S. Libraries in 1996
Frequency & Release Date: Appears in the Bowker Annual.
Location for Yale Selectors:
Content: Compiled by David Block from data supplied by the LC, NYPL, and the university libraries of Arizona, Cornell, Illinois at Champaign/Urbana, Texas at Austin, and Wisconsin at Madison. Covers 26 countries and regions with number of books and average cost. Compiled for SALALM.
See also: Bowker Annual.

Report: Latin American Periodical Price Index
Frequency & Release Date: Annual release of original data in the October issue.
See: Appears subsequently in the Bowker Annual.

Science

Report: [Chart only]
Frequency & Release Date: Annual in January 1st issue, since 1991 in the Book Reviews section.
Content: Table lists average per-volume price of books reviewed in Science in two categories: "All books" and "Technical books in natural sciences."

Serials Review

Report: Index Medicus Price Study: Publishing Trends From 1992-1999 by Lynn M. Fortney (EBSCO) and Victor A. Basile (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)
Frequency & Release Date: Annual in the Fall issue since 1991 (publication lags behind schedule).
Content: "A five-year cost study for all titles indexed by Index Medicus. Data is analyzed by medical discipline and country of origin." Information for obtaining a copy of the current price study is available at the bottom of this page.
See also: EBSCO

Swets Blackwell

Report: Serials Price Increases 2002
Location for Yale Selectors: Online.
Content: The survey "shows percent increases for 1999 over 1998 in the following 10 major 'country' areas (i.e. countries of publication): USA, UK, Far East, Australasia, Scandinavia, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands and in 5 general subject groupings: Science, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences and the Humanities.

Against each category, the total number of titles reviewed is indicated. Titles are included if the 1999 and 1998 prices can be directly compared. The Report is published monthly from September, with the final report appearing in January."

See also: Swets Blackwell homepage; Swets & Zeitlinger

YBP (formerly Yankee Book Peddler)

Report: Approval Coverage Reports
Location for Yale Selectors: Online.
Frequency & Release Date: Annual in the summer.
Content: Contains the following tables: See also: YBP homepage.
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