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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS— INCREASED RATES Dea r Madam, Th e American Chemical Society has announced increased rates for Chemical Abstracts in 1963. The revised price to ACS members and to colleges and universities will be $500 annually, and the rate to all others will be $1,000. Previou s rates were $40 for ACS members, $200 for colleges and universities, and $925 to others (excluding postal charges). Th e ACS realizes that the new college an d university rate will cause hardship, especially to smaller colleges, and suggests that colleges actively seek donors t o help pay for CA, among industrial groups and possibly from government sources. A t the same time CA will be available in four major groupings of sections, whic h can be purchased separately. These are CA bio-chemical sections, already available; CA organic sections; CA physical chemistry sections, including selected analytical and inorganic sections; and CA macromolecular (natural and synthetic) sections. Each issue will be provided with a keyword index of contents of the entire CA. Each of these groupings, issued every two weeks, will be priced to academic institutions at $25 per year. These four section groupings represent about 80 per cent of the entire CA, but do not of course include the important annual indexes. College libraries will need a substantial increase in their annual vote to meet th e increased cost of Chemical Abstracts, Physics Abstracts, Electrical Engineering Abstracts, and many other journals that have substantially increased subscrip­ tion rates. The steep rise in the cost of periodicals, with demands for new titles, leaves little enough for books and binding in advanced colleges (colleges of advanced technology, regional colleges and other colleges undertaking research). I n view of the difficulty in the past in securing an adequate vote for the library in competition with other departments, perhaps industry or the Depart­ men t of Scientific and Industrial Research could assist in the matter, especially in the case of subscriptions to abstract journals. E . R. YESCOMBE, Librarian Norther n Polytechnic, London N 7 5th September 1962 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives Emerald Publishing

Letter to the Editor

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives , Volume 14 (10): 1 – Oct 1, 1962
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CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS— INCREASED RATES Dea r Madam, Th e American Chemical Society has announced increased rates for Chemical Abstracts in 1963. The revised price to ACS members and to colleges and universities will be $500 annually, and the rate to all others will be $1,000. Previou s rates were $40 for ACS members, $200 for colleges and universities, and $925 to others (excluding postal charges). Th e ACS realizes that the new college an d university rate will cause hardship, especially to smaller colleges, and suggests that colleges actively seek donors t o help pay for CA, among industrial groups and possibly from government sources. A t the same time CA will be available in four major groupings of sections, whic h can be purchased separately. These are CA bio-chemical sections, already available; CA organic sections; CA physical chemistry sections, including selected analytical and inorganic sections; and CA macromolecular (natural and synthetic) sections. Each issue will be provided with a keyword index of contents of the entire CA. Each of these groupings, issued every two weeks, will be priced to academic institutions at $25 per year. These four section groupings represent about 80 per cent of the entire CA, but do not of course include the important annual indexes. College libraries will need a substantial increase in their annual vote to meet th e increased cost of Chemical Abstracts, Physics Abstracts, Electrical Engineering Abstracts, and many other journals that have substantially increased subscrip­ tion rates. The steep rise in the cost of periodicals, with demands for new titles, leaves little enough for books and binding in advanced colleges (colleges of advanced technology, regional colleges and other colleges undertaking research). I n view of the difficulty in the past in securing an adequate vote for the library in competition with other departments, perhaps industry or the Depart­ men t of Scientific and Industrial Research could assist in the matter, especially in the case of subscriptions to abstract journals. E . R. YESCOMBE, Librarian Norther n Polytechnic, London N 7 5th September 1962

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