We also just received a price increase notice from Ebsco that the NASPA was raising their online subscription price for the NASPA Journal from $35.00 to $219.00. It is really hard to justify since it is an online, not print subscription.

Olga

Olga Russov
Head of Acquisitions and Serials
Kennesaw State University
Sturgis Library
1000 Chastain Rd., #1701
Kennesaw, GA 30144
voice: 770-423-6189
fax: 770-423-6727

----- "Stephen Clark" <sdclar@WM.EDU> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We just received a notice from our subscription agent that Scientific
>
> American was raising their print subscription price for 2010 from
> $41.91
> (which includes the agent's service charge) to $299.00  Has anyone
> else
> received this outrageous increase notice?
>
> We are in the process of contacting the publisher to find out what
> might
> be the cause of this dramatic price rise.
>
> Stephen
>
> --
> Stephen Clark
> Acquisitions Librarian
> College of William and Mary
> Earl Gregg Swem Library
> Williamsburg, VA
> phone:  757-221-3107
> fax:  757-221-3645
> email:  sdclar@wm.edu