(August 2010)

At Springer Business as usual.
In the Springer Alert on the 2010 Price List, August 2009 no mentioning of the global economic crisis and its impact on libraries.

Average price increase 6% (both in USD and EUR), Gabler-Verlag USD -7% (EUR +5%), Birkhauser Basel, Urban & Vogel, Springer Japan 3-4%, Humana Press 5%, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Wien, London, Paris, Springer Netherlands 5,5%, Springer US, New York, Milan, India, Chinese Society Journals, Higher Education Press 6%, Allerton Press, MAIK Nauka /Interperiodica 7%, Birkhauser Boston 8%, Versita 9%, Science in China Press, Science Press 10%, Vieweg+Teubner USD +11% (EUR +5%), Korean Societies 14%, VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften USD +17% (EUR +30%), Spektrum Akademischer Verlag 32%.

Price increases for titles that are announced with "more content" range from 5% to 25%

That Springer published its newest price list only as pdf, is less than helpful for agencies and libraries. We have converted it back to an XML table which you can load into Excel, cf. below.

• Springer Journals Price List Aug 2010 - USD (xml)
• Springer Journals Price List Aug 2010 - EUR (xml)
• Springer Journals Price List Comparison Apr 09 vs. Aug 2010 - USD (xls)
• Springer Journals Price List Comparison Apr 09 vs. Aug 2010 - EUR (xls)

(You can do this by loading it in Acrobat - not Acrobat Reader -, then save as "Table in xml format"). We corrected a typo in the Print/e-only price of the Journal of Population Economics (USD 1145 instead of USD 145), check the EUR price list for comparison. Springer should recheck these prices as the relation between combined price and p/e price is somewhat different (1,126) then usual (1,2) in this particular case.

The old 2009 price lists (in Excel!) are still available at

http://www.springer.com/ - "For Librarians" - "Journal Prices", e.g. (login for your country)

• Journal Prices in USD
• Journal prices in EUR

Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library