bepress 2007 Prices: Another Year of Affordable Peer-reviewed Journals
Berkeley, CA, November 2, 2006 – The Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to announce yet another year of affordable prices for our high-quality peer-reviewed journals. Each journal will sell at the same price in 2007 as in 2006. The collection of all journals, ResearchNow Full Access, will be offered at a 30% discount, compared with a 20% discount one year ago.
bepress Peer-Reviewed Journals
For the seventh year running, bepress has not raised the price of any journal. As a result, bepress journals continue to be priced well below industry averages.
| Average % price change, 2001-2006 | 2006 average prices | |
|---|---|---|
| All Social Science Journals | 47% | $550.50 |
| All Science Journals | 44% | $1479.50 |
| bepress Journals | -16% | $270 |
Source for industry averages: Table 5 in Lee C. Van Orsdel & Kathleen Born "Journals in the Time of Google: Periodicals Price Survey 2006." Library Journal, 4/15/2006, http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6321722.html.
“The success of bepress over the past seven years has proven that it is possible to publish high-quality and successful academic journals at affordable prices, without relying on author fees or research subsidies,” said Sean O’Doherty, VP of Journal Sales at bepress.
ResearchNow Full Access (RNFA)
bepress is also pleased to announce the 2007 price for its complete package of journals, ResearchNow Full Access: $6,500. While bepress added 7 new journals to RNFA during 2006 that sell individually for a total of $2025, the price of the package is only increasing by $650 over a year earlier. We have worked hard to keep this increase modest. This year’s price represents a 30% discount on the collection’s total value, even larger than our 2006 discount of 20%.
RNFA includes full access to all bepress peer-reviewed journals, currently numbering 34. RNFA subscribers will get access to new journals added during 2007 at no additional cost.
This past year, RNFA has increased its acceptance in the library community: to mention just a few, new subscribers during 2006 included Arizona State, Indiana University, University of Bergen, Ahila University in Bahrain, University of Paris, and 21 schools from the Carolina consortium.
To find out more about RNFA, visit http://researchnow.bepress.com.
To find out more about bepress journals, visit http://www.bepress.com/aboutjournals.html.
To find out more about the scholarly communication crisis, and what bepress is doing to help, visit http://www.bepress.com/crisis.html.
For subscriptions, visit http://www.bepress.com/subscriptions.html. For more information, email .
About The Berkeley Electronic Press
Founded by academics in 1999, The Berkeley Electronic Press ("bepress") is both a publisher of peer-reviewed electronic journals and a software developer, having created the institutional repository platform that powers Digital Commons as well as the University of California's eScholarship Repository. The Company produces tools to improve scholarly communication via innovative and effective means of content production and dissemination. Bepress has a portfolio of products and services that reduces the costs of and barriers to access.
For additional information on bepress, please see: www.bepress.com.