Re: Big Deal Pricing Plea

[Ted Bergstrom <tedb@econ.ucsb.edu>]

Hi Jason,

I have been traveling and away from my phone and email.  Sorry 
about that. I got the historical economics prices by hiring an 
undergraduate to go through old EBSCO books.  So I don't have any 
easy way to supply information for other fields.

You may be able to get some good 2003 numbers from Grace 
Baysinger at the Stanford University library.  They have recently 
started to collect prices from the publishers' price lists and 
maybe if you are really lucky they will have some older ones 
around.  Check out the following link for some 2003 prices.

<http://www-sul.stanford.edu/scholarly_com/data/jnl_price_page.pdf>

and also check 
<http://www-sul.stanford.edu/scholarly_com/data/index.html>. 
But I would recommend contacting Grace to see what else she may 
have. Good luck, Ted

> Please send any electronic "list price lists" you might have 
> stored from 2001 2002 or 2003 from any of the big 4 commercial 
> publishers (Blackwell, Elsevier, Wiley or Springer). Pdf is 
> great, xls even better.
>
> I am working on a study to determine the benefits of 'Price 
> Caps'.  Although the average market list price increase may be 
> higher than these price caps, individual results may vary, 
> depending on the identity of an institution's subscribed titles 
> and the range of variation about the mean.  I'll be happy to 
> share the results with this list, and can look more broadly if 
> electronic pricing catalogs are available for this period.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Please Reply to jprice@alum.com
>
> Jason Price
> Science & Electronic Resources Librarian
> The Claremont Colleges, California