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- From: hdev@dutiag.tudelft.nl (Hans de Vreught)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: jump in price of journals
- Message-ID: <hdev.722133059@dutiag>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:30:59 GMT
- References: <djoyce.722095513@black.clarku.edu> <1992Nov18.165625.21728@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
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- mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
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- >Of course, once they start raising their prices, more libraries drop
- >their subscriptions, and so on. With any luck, this is a signal of an
- >impending shakeout in scholarly publications.
-
- Don't you believe that. The one part of Elsevier that was booming was
- scholarly publications. Our need to write publications, simply means that
- either many journals or very thick journals are needed. Either way, your
- university must pay the prices.
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- Hans de Vreught | John von Neumann:
- hdev@dutiba.twi.tudelft.nl | Young man, in mathematics
- Delft University of Technology (TWI-ThI) | you don't understand things,
- The Netherlands | you just get used to them.
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