-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Elsevier Trends Journals -- Buddy Pennington
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:36:20 -0400
From: David Goodman <dgoodman@princeton.edu>
Reply-To: dgoodman@princeton.edu
Organization: Princeton University Biology Library

At last a question about this topic with a straight-forward answer:
Yes, its the same thing.

>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Elsevier Trends Journals -- Sandra Hernandez
> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:33:54 -0600
> From: "Pennington, Buddy" <buddy.pennington@ROCKHURST.EDU>
>
> Is this the same as the bound 'Reference Edition' that we receive with
> our
> subscription to Trends in Neurosciences?
>
> Buddy Pennington
> Acquisitions/Serials Librarian
> Rockhurst University Greenlease Library
> buddy.pennington@rockhurst.edu
> #816-501-4143
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Elsevier Trends Journals -- Frank Norman
> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:35:29 -0600
> From: "Hernandez, Sandra" <SHernand@trinity.edu>
>
> We also subscribe to a number of the Elsevier "Trends" journals. I just
> spoke with Elsevier and they informed me that we wouldn't receive the
> 2000
> or 2001  "Library compendium" volumes. You're correct a quick look at
> the
> pricing for 2000 and for 2001 shows that the prices for these journals
> are
> not being reduced to compensate for this loss.  In fact, our prices
> increased in 2001 despite the fact that we won't be receiving a "Library
> compendium" volume.
>
> *************************************************************
> Sandra Hernandez
> Trinity University Library
> Senior Acq. Asst. for Subscriptions/Standing Orders
> Phone:  (210) 999-8171 or Fax:  (210) 999-8021
> E-mail:  shernand@trinity.edu
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:17:11 +0000
> From: Frank Norman <fnorman@NIMR.MRC.AC.UK>
> Subject: Elsevier Trends Journals
>
> We subscribe to a number of the Elsevier "Trends" journals (Trends
> in Neurosciences, Trends in Biochemical Sciences etc).  The
> institutional subscription prices for these journals are set at higher
> levels than the personal subscription but this is offset by the
> inclusion of an annual "Library Compendium" volume at the end of
> the year.  This is a bound volume containing all the past year's
> issues.
>
> We've just been notified by our subscription agents that the Library
> Compendium volumes are ceasing publication after Dec 2000.  A
> quick look at the pricing for 2000 and for 2001 shows that the
> prices for these journals are not being reduced to compensate for
> this loss.  It rather appears to be a sleight of hand price increase,
> compounded by the lack of any advance information about the
> change from the publisher.
>
> I suppose one shouldn't be surprised, but it is disappointing to see
> this kind of thing still.
>
> Frank Norman            National Institute for Medical Research
> Librarian               The Ridgeway, Mill Hill
>                         London NW7 1AA,  UK
> tel 020 8 913 8629      email fnorman@nimr.mrc.ac.uk
> fax 020 8 913 8534      http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/personal/Frank

--
David Goodman
Biology Librarian
and Co-chair, Electronic Journals Task force
Princeton University Library
Princeton, NJ 08544-0001
phone: 609-258-3235
fax: 609-258-2627
e-mail: dgoodman@princeton.edu