I relayed this to our Elsevier rep and I got a whole litany of why Elsevier databases are priced exorbitantly... I can only listen to her in complete disbelief!
Girl! Hey! You are talking to someone from a third world (yes! some would use the term "developing") country!!! and you are trying to justify why Germany made a wrong move in this! Tsk tsk tsk! Some salesperson indeed! :-) :-) Elvira B. Lapuz Head Librarian General Reference and Electronic Resources Section G/F North Wing, Gonzalez Hall University of the Philippines Diliman 1101 Quezon City PHILIPPINES Tel: (632) 9818500 local 2861 Fax: (632) 9818500 local 2851 GSM: 639178553228 On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Stephen B. Alayon <[email protected]>wrote: > > German University Tells Elsevier 'No Deal' > 27 March 2014 1:30 pm > news.sciencemag.org > > In the latest skirmish between academia and publishers over the costs of > academic journals, the University of Konstanz in Germany has broken off > negotiations<http://www.aktuelles.uni-konstanz.de/en/presseinformationen/2014/28/>over > a new licensing agreement with the scientific publisher Elsevier. The > publisher’s prices are too high, said university Rector Ulrich Rüdiger in a > statement, and the institution “will no longer keep up with this aggressive > pricing policy and will not support such an approach.” > > Journals offered by the Dutch publishing giant, which sells more than 2500 > titles, were covered by what was the university’s most expensive license by > far, says Julia Wandt, the university’s head of communications and > marketing. Negotiations had been ongoing since October, she says. > > The average Elsevier journal license cost 3400 euros ($4693) per year, > three times as high as licenses offered by the second-priciest publisher, > the university said in a statement. Wandt says Elsevier’s prices had > increased more than 30% in the last 5 years. > > read more: > http://news.sciencemag.org/people-events/2014/03/german-university-tells-elsevier-no-deal > > STEPHEN B. ALAYON > Data Bank Senior Information Assistant > Library and Data Banking Services Section > Training and Information Division > Aquaculture Department (AQD) > Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) > Tigbauan, Iloilo 5021 Philippines > URL: http://www.seafdec.org.ph > Telephone No.: 63 33 5119170 to 71 local 409 > Fax No.: 63 33 5119174 > Mobile Phone No.: 63 919 4506688 > Email Add: [email protected], > [email protected]<%[email protected]> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Filipino Librarians" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/filipinolibrarians. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Filipino Librarians" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/filipinolibrarians. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
