RE: The Journal of Experimental Biology - price increase

["Nick Birch" <nick@biologists.com>]

The Journal of Experimental Biology

David Stern and I have had some direct e-mail contact on the 
point he raised a few days ago about the 2007 price rise for the 
Company of Biologists' journal, The Journal of Experimental 
Biology. However I think it might be useful to offer some 
clarification on our 2007 pricing policy for liblicense users 
generally.

Whilst I'm obviously not able to go into details about Yale's 
negotiations with the Company for 2007 subscriptions, I can 
confirm that David's posting was based on a misapprehension about 
what Yale is currently paying for its 2006 subscription.

In fact the year on year price increase proposed by CoB on a like 
for like renewal basis is 5% as is the case with the majority of 
our tier 5/multi-site subscribers.

In adopting a tiered pricing system we have been very aware of 
the need think extremely carefully about price increases 
generally and especially for the largest institutional users. 
Under our system, the maximum any institution could pay more than 
before is 15%, many smaller institutions will actually be paying 
rather less than in 2006 and probably the largest percentage will 
see their prices increase by around 5%. Those institutions moving 
from print plus online to online only would see significant 
reductions on their 2006 prices.

As has been announced we do not anticipate increasing our revenue 
through adopting tiered pricing by any more than is neccesary to 
cover the rate of inflation. Instead we are trying to adopt a 
system that is fairer for all institutions in relation to their 
size and potential usage.


Nick Birch
Sales and Marketing Manager
The Company of Biologists Limited
Cambridge CB4 0DL, UK
www.biologists.org
Please note new e-mail: nick@biologists.com

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu]On Behalf Of David Stern
Sent: 16 November 2006 15:34
To: sts-l@ala.org; liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: The Journal of Experimental Biology - price increase

The Journal of Experimental Biology
The Company of Biologists Ltd
         http://jeb.biologists.org/

While I applaud innovation and fair pricing, the new tiered 
pricing system represents an increase from just over $1,000 to 
just over $4,000 for large research libraries.

Perhaps there is a way to move to this scheme, providing less 
cost to smaller libraries, without doing it in one year through 
untenable price increases to large libraries?

David Stern Director of Science Libraries and Information Services
Kline Science Library
New Haven, CT 06520-8111
phone:  203 432-3447
fax:  203 432-3441 email:
david.e.stern@yale.edu