Chemistry Journals: Cost-Effectiveness, Seminal Titles and Exchange Rate Profiteering

Roth, Dana L. (2002) Chemistry Journals: Cost-Effectiveness, Seminal Titles and Exchange Rate Profiteering. Science & Technology Libraries, 22 (3/4). pp. 59-70. ISSN 0194-262X [CaltechLIB:2002.012]

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Abstract

The cost-effectiveness of STM journals has been compared within several subject areas, beginning with Henry Barschall's work with the physics literature in the late 1980s. A new use independent cost-effectiveness metric is proposed and calculated for journals in several chemistry sub-disciplines. Publisher and year-of-publication data for seminal journal articles assigned in a graduate-level organic synthesis class are presented. The effects of publisher policies in establishing and enforcing differential subscription prices for European and non-European customers on the rise of journal-subscription costs and also on possible exchange-rate profiteering are discussed.

EPrint Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Author preprint.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Cost-Effectiveness, Chemistry, Journals, Foreign Exchange Rates, Organic Synthesis
Subjects:	All Records > Publishing and legal issues
ID Code:	91
Deposited By:	Dana Lincoln Roth
Deposited On:	31 January 2006
Record Number:	CaltechLIB:2002.012
Official Persistent URL:	http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechLIB:2002.012
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