Inflation rates (projected):

• EBSCO projections
• SwetsBlackwell projections

• Choosing Sides--Periodical Price Survey 2005 -- Library JOurnal info
• U.S. Periodical Prices—2002
  From the May 2002 American Libraries.
  

Highest Priced Journals:

• Create Change: Highest Price Journals
• Journal Value Project -- University of Wisconsin - Madison database of journal costs per page, per thousand characters, and per Impact factor.

Description of the situation:

• Overview of problem
• Yale Science Libraries new journal request policy
• Articles about online publication
• Ruminations on the Sci-Tech Serials Crisis -- Emily R. Mobley
• discussion of the Faculty input required, Response to this message
• Dean of Libraries of Montana State University: Is the Journal as We Know It an Article of Faith? An Open Letter to the Faculty
• The Scholars' Forum - addresses issues regarding new avenues of scholarly communication.
• U Wisconsin cost study
• Cornell journal cost study
• Scripps journal inflation page
• Univ. of Oregon Serials Cancellation Project
• MIT Libraries: Issues in Journal Publishing and 1995/96 Serial Review and Cancellation Project
• Univ. of Tennessee Online Journals News
• Create Change: highest price journals list
• Ameican Chemical Society comparison: cost per page
• Cornell Elsevier statement
• Stanford Faculty Senate statement
• Walt Crawford's overview of the JoA editorial board situation in Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large (April 2004)
• SciDev.Net - guide explores various approaches – from 'open-access' publishing and self-archiving to differential pricing initiatives
• ARL Report: A Snapshot in Time: ARL Libraries and Electronic Journal Resources
• Yale grad student plea for reconsideration

Discussions and possible solutions

Yale specific information

• Most used titles in Kline Science Library.

• Most important titles in Kline Science Library - according to a faculty survey.

• Yale science journals -- highest inflation rates:
  2000: All science libraries (not Math)
  1999: Kline,
  1998: Kline, Geology, Engineering and Applied Science ,
  1997: Kline, Geology, Engineering and Applied Science

• Yale science journals -- most expensive titles/packages:
  2000: All science libraries (not Math)
  1999: Kline,
  1998: Kline, Geology, Engineering and Applied Science ,
  1997: Kline, Engineering and Applied Science

1997 Journals Cancellation Project

The Yale Science Libraries embarked upon a study to help reduce journal expenditures. We implemented use studies, cost-per-use analyses, and faculty surveys in order to tailor our purchasing profile to the current teaching and research support needs of our users.

The timetable was as follows:

• Oct-Dec 1996: in-house journal use statistics gathered
• March: use studies analyzed
• April: faculty surveys distributed
• May: faculty surveys analyzed
• May-June: weighting of all factors to create preliminary lists
• June-Sept: departmental library committees (faculty and librarians) review lists
• Sept-Oct: cancellation lists finalized and vendors contacted