Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc., US, has released the 2013 Study of Subscription Prices for Scholarly Society Journals.
The study, published regularly, summarises historical prices of approximately 200 publications appearing in the Allen Press Buyer’s Guide to Scientific, Medical, and Scholarly Journals™. Several focus groups and industry studies also served as resources for assessing library budget trends, strategies libraries use for cost containment, content selection and cancellation criteria, access performance, and user behaviour.
The study reports that pricing strategies for scholarly journals remain consistent and predictable, but the way libraries are evaluating and purchasing content is evolving. Serial price increases continue to outpace library budget increases, and libraries are still in a position of having to make difficult decisions regarding their collections in order to balance patron needs and budgets.
The free publication is now available on the Allen Press website at http://allenpress.com/resources/education/jps.
