bepress 2008 Prices and News
Berkeley, CA, September 10, 2007 – The Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to announce that prices for each of our peer-reviewed electronic journals will be unchanged in 2008, and will remain at 2007 levels. As in all previous years, no journal costs more than $500. For the eighth year running, bepress journals continue to be priced far below industry averages.
| 2007 Average Prices | Average % Price Increase 2003-2007 | |
|---|---|---|
| Social Science Journals | $604.00 | 40.4% |
| Science Journals | $1,570.50 | 34.7% |
| bepress Journals | $277.00 | 2.0% |
Source for industry averages: Table 5 in Lee C. Van Orsdel & Kathleen Born “Serial Wars: Library Journal’s Periodicals Price Survey 2007” Library Journal, 4/15/2007, http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6431958.html.
For a price list and subscriptions, visit http://www.bepress.com/subscriptions.html
2008 ResearchNow Pricing
The 2008 price for our complete collection of journals, ResearchNow, is $7,100. ResearchNow includes full access to all bepress peer-reviewed journals, currently numbering 38. As always, subscribers will get access to new journals added during 2008 at no additional cost.
This past year, we have added four new journals whose list price totals $1,050, but have only increased the collection’s price by $600. The 2008 price represents a 33% discount on the collection’s total value, larger than our 2007 discount of 30%.
New journals added in 2007
World Political Science Review – See www.bepress.com/wpsr
Journal of Industrial Organization Education – See www.bepress.com/jioe
Review of Middle East Economics and Finance – See www.bepress.com/rmeef
New Global Studies – See www.bepress.com/ngs
News: bepress’s growing international presence
In the past year, bepress has established a significant international presence. The German Research Foundation (DFG) selected ResearchNow for a nation-wide license for all German libraries. ResearchNow was also purchased by libraries in Australia (Monash University and the University of Sydney), Bahrain (Ahlia University), New Zealand (Victoria University), Spain (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), and the U.K. (Cambridge, Warwick, Manchester, Kings College London and the London School of Economics).
These new customers reflect the changing face of academic scholarship. Our users at bepress are increasingly international: over 40% of our readers come from outside the U.S., and a significant percentage of authors, editors, and editorial board members come from overseas, many from emerging countries in East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.
Our journals are well-positioned to serve this increasingly international audience. Many of the new bepress journals have a significant international focus: World Political Science Review is a unique journal that publishes award-winning political science from around the world, translated into English. Review of Middle East Economics and Finance is the only journal to focus on the economics and business of that dynamic region. New Global Studies is a significant new journal devoted to the study of contemporary globalization as a whole, across disciplines. We anticipate that 2008 will see more international growth in content, readership, titles and subscriptions.
To see more of our internationally-focused journals and to find out more about bepress journals in general, visit http://www.bepress.com/alljournals.html.
To find out more about the scholarly communication crisis, and what bepress is doing to help, visit http://www.bepress.com/crisis.html.
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About The Berkeley Electronic Press
Founded by academics in 1999, The Berkeley Electronic Press ("bepress") publishes peer-reviewed electronic journals and develops software for the academic community, including a variety of tools that facilitate open access publication. Our core mission is to promote efficient Scholarly Communication. Digital Commons™, our Institutional Repository platform, powers the repositories of over 60 universities, including the eScholarship Repository of the University of California system.
Visit: www.bepress.com for more information about bepress and its services and products.