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As expected, an insightful and thoughtful review of our past, present, and future seen through the wisdom and experience of Chris Sundt! Thank you, BJ From: ARLIS/NA List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christine L. Sundt Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:06 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Routlege/Taylor and Francis absorbing CAA journals? I need to correct a statement in Thomas Hill's message regarding Visual Resources, that "the editors moved to Taylor & Francis." The fact of the matter is that VR's prior publisher Gordon + Breach and later one of its offshoots Harwood Academic Press sold all of its holdings to Taylor & Francis around 2000. The editors had nothing to do with the change in management. Actually Helene Roberts, then editor, and I were both surprised and even pleased with this move and ultimately grateful that VR survived; not all journals sold to T&F enjoyed the same fate. Our move to T&F/Routledge was graceful and efficient. We also found that we were under the management of a highly competent team of professionals who always went out of their way to satisfy our needs and to assist authors; this was not always the case under G+B (some will remember that G+B preceded Elsevier in its status as "demon incarnate"). We were also pleased that we could keep the same promotional subscription rate for individual subscribers who were members of several organizations that had this benefit under G+B. The current beneficiaries of this special subscription rate are members of VRA, CAA, and AHA (UK). There is no dispute that the cost of selling the journal to all other subscribers is high, and libraries are among these. But much has changed since the days of print-only publications and distribution. One needs only to look around our libraries to see that technology tools have largely replaced the physical objects that we knew as books and journals and that the replacement costs for keeping technology current is astronomical, hardly comparable to the cost of content. Think of the life-span of a typical computer and all the peripherals that we currently supply free of charge to our users. Where does that money come from? It's got to come from somewhere within our budgets and acquisitions is and has been one of those places. Remember the massive journal cuts that we all endured? Yes, prices were going up, but additional new library expenses were also popping up like gophers. Included among these were our own digitization projects, the new consortia model (administration or membership is not free), online catalogs and services, and free document delivery to faculty and students to name a few. These are expenses that were not within our budgets several decades ago. The cost of delivering content is different than it used to be and like all things linked with technology, it is more expensive and the costs do not seem to know a ceiling or limit; but it is fast and efficient, better than the way we operated in the past. The cost of subscribing to a journal as a library could be rationalized if there is demand among faculty and students for the content of the journal -- which I hope could be the case with VR. If libraries are happy to pay on-demand fees for content (pay per download), that's one way to avoid subscribing. On the other hand, if staff time is involved in frequent requests for the same content, then it may be more cost effective to subscribe or to get the journal through a package of e-journals such as offered by Ebscohost (VR is among a vast number of titles available). My work as an editor of an academic journal as taught me to be more sympathetic about publishers and how they serve us. They are hardly "price-fixing parasites on the academy." If anything, technology is the culprit, but I can't imagine working in an environment that can bypass it. I invite your further thoughts -- and especially your ideas about how we as librarians can be helping the cause instead of dismissing and demonizing it. With kind regards, Christine L. Sundt, Editor Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation PO Box 5316 Eugene OR 97405-0316 - USA phone: 541.485.1420 VR Web site: http://www.mindspring.com/~sundt-vr<http://www.mindspring.com/%7Esundt-vr/so.htm>/ csundt(at)mindspring(dot)com or csundt(at)gmail(dot)com _______________________________ [Image removed by sender.] [Image removed by sender.] VR 29-4 (December 2013) EDITORIAL: Research Resources at our Fingertips FREE ACCESS - View full text<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973762.2013.846774> Download full text<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01973762.2013.846774> DOI:10.1080/01973762.2013.846774 http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gvir20/current On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Thomas Hill <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Dear All, I find this a sad development. So what do we do, buy even fewer monographs? It doesn't speak at all well for CAA and the editors of the Bulletin and Journal that they seem to be so uninformed about the crisis in scholarly publishing and its causes. Little wonder that the scholarly communication system is bordering on self-destruction, and peer review along with it. I cancelled my own library's subscription to Visual Resources long ago because their editors moved to Taylor & Francis, who charge as much for a subscription as we pay for twenty other titles combined. Hopefully, most of us will have the courage to cancel the Bulletin and Journal, painful as this will be, and send a message that we won't be held hostage by market-cornering, price-fixing parasites on the academy. Thomas On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Carol Terry <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: I just checked with the CAA office, and while they have discontinued the library membership, you can still get a Department/Museum membership for $600, only $30 more than it costs to subscribe through T & F to Art Bulletin and Art Journal. The advantage of the membership is that it includes CAA reviews and CAA News. Carol Terry On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Rebecca Kohn <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Greetings, Our serials department received a letter from the College Art Association stating Routledge/Taylor & Francis will be taking over the publication of Art Bulletin and Art Journal in 2014. We had been purchasing a library membership through CAA to receive the print issues of both Art Journal and Art Bulletin. Collective thoughts about this? Should we be bracing for a cost increase? Here's a link on the CAA page about it: http://www.collegeart.org/news/2013/11/05/caa-journals-to-be-published-by-taylor-francis/ Rebecca Rebecca Kohn Associate Librarian, San Jose State University Library Liaison to Art and Art History, Design, and Philosophy http://libguides.sjsu.edu/artdesignresources http://libguides.sjsu.edu/philosophy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Carol Terry Director of Library Services Rhode Island School of Design location: 15 Westminster Street mail: 2 College Street Providence, RI 02903 401-709-5909<tel:401-709-5909> (office) 401-473-4793<tel:401-473-4793> (mobile) [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>http://library.risd.edu/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Thomas E. 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