Journal Pricing

Latest Journal Pricing Information

The ASA is no longer collating journals pricing information as the UKSG maintains a comprehensive record of the latest (plus some historical) journals price-lists from a wide range of scholarly and professional publishers.  Click here to view this information.

Additionally, EBSCO produces a very useful annual Serials Price Projection.

 

Timely Price Information
The ASA is calling on all publishers to make every effort to announce their serials prices as soon as possible, preferably by the end of July. Timely pricing is in the interests of everyone connected with the information supply chain for several important reasons:

  • Late pricing means agents are loading prices onto their systems at their busiest time of the year. Hurrying data maintenance may cause errors which can lead to incorrect payments later.
  • Subscribers cannot take informed decisions about next year's subscriptions without adequate and timely price information. Given the increasing variety and complex nature of pricing models, librarians and other information professionals need a reasonable amount of time to consider their decisions.
  • Late pricing impacts collection development decision-making which in turn may lead to late ordering and late payment. Very late pricing risks agents having to invoice clients at the previous years rate, and paying the publisher the wrong amount. This in turn causes costly and administratively complex supplementary invoicing and payments.

For the above reasons, the ASA is calling on all publishers and their representative bodies to do their utmost to ensure the availability of their price lists by the end of July each year. Where publishers have a few journals whose prices cannot be fixed by these dates, we ask that prices of those journals which can be fixed be announced to ensure that the majority can be processed efficiently, giving all concerned sufficient time.