periodicals in crisis

Murphy LibraryPeriodicals Collection

1999-2003

Jenifer Holman

Acquisitions Librarian

holman.jeni@uwlax.edu

Price Index ComparisonPercentage Increase Over Previous year

CPI HEPI USPPI - Excluding USPPI - Including

Russian Trans. Russian Trans.

1984 3.2 4.8 9.4 10.2

1985 3.6 5.8 8.6 11.5

1986 1.9 5 8.9 8.2

1987 3.7 4 9.9 10.3

1988 4.1 4.4 9.1 9.4

1989 4.8 5.3 9.5 8.2

1990 5.4 6 9.5 9.4

1991 5.5 5.2 11.7 11.1

1992 3.4 3.6 12.2 12.6

1993 1.3 2.9 5.5 6

1994 2.6 3.4 9.6 8.6

1995 2.8 3 10.4 9.5

1996 3 3 10.8 9.6

1997 2.3 3 9.9 10.1

1998 1.6 3.5 10.3 9.5

1999 2.2 2.4 10.4 9.8

2000 3.4 4.1 9 9.2

2001 2.8 4.8 8.3 8.6

2002 N/A N/A 7.9 7.6

CPI=Consumer Price Index HEPI=Higher Education Price Index USPPI=US Periodicals Price Index

PrintPrint Print Print

TitleTitless

MFMF MFMF

TitlesTitlesCancelsCancels AddsAdds

99/0099/00 $378,644.6$378,644.699

14061406 $56,241.0$56,241.066

552552 $15,003.37$15,003.37 $4,386.92$4,386.92

00/0100/01 $388,803.2$388,803.244

15211521 $55,126.3$55,126.355

534534 $21,201.31$21,201.31 $18,618.78$18,618.78

01/0201/02 $415,362.0$415,362.000

14171417 $60,754.6$60,754.688

522522 $13,839.91$13,839.91 $1,418.38$1,418.38

02/0302/03 $421,614.4$421,614.455

13661366 $57,163.9$57,163.966

482482 $46,546.84$46,546.84 $2,414.41$2,414.41

03/0403/04 $434,720.7$434,720.7 AvailAvail. . 6/046/04

$48,439.2$48,439.244

Avail.Avail.

6/046/04$57,490.09$57,490.09 $762.59$762.59

Between 1986 and 2001:• journal prices overall increased by

8.5%/year• The CPI overall grew by 3.4%/year

Journal prices grew twice as fast as health care prices during the same period.

title has gotten little or no recorded use over several years.

title is available electronically through our subscription to Project Muse.

title has a current cost/use ratio greater than $35.

title no longer supports the curriculum.

Even with small budget increases, Murphy Library is no longer able to support traditional print access to scholarly communication through journal subscriptions alone

We are NOT alone – even Harvard and Cornell are canceling periodicals

Before publishing in a journal, ask some questions:• Can I post a copy of my article on my web site

or my institution’s web site (self-archiving)? • Are archives available to the public for free

after a short time period (open-access journals/archives) ?

Publishers to scrutinize: Commercial publishers such as Elsevier, Wiley, Kluwer

Project RoMEO• http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/

disresearch/romeo/• Pulls together terms from many publishers

Public Library of Science• http://www.plos.org/about/history.html

BioMed Central• http://www.biomedcentral.com/• Open-access journals now available through

library catalog and periodicals holdings list Directory of Open Access Journals

(DOAJ)• http://www.doaj.org/

E-Scholarship Repository (California Digtial Library – University of California)• http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/• Offers Social Sciences and Humanities faculty a central

place for digital scholarship CODA: Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives

• http://library.caltech.edu/digital/ More listed on the Sparc Institutional Repository

web page: http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=m1#usa