{"title":"An Empirical Test of Two Vendors’ Trade Discounts","authors":"William J. Hubbard , Jodi Welch","doi":"10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00039-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00039-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In a comparison of discounts between Blackwell North America and Baker & Taylor, acquisitions personnel at Jacksonville State University found considerable discrepancy between the two vendors’ categorization of trade books. Then a recently announced lawsuit against Baker & Taylor (B&T) questioning the application of the trade book category, led to a review of B&T invoices for analysis of trade discounts. This study revealed that the vendor applied discounts from 5% to 40% for books classified as trade on their invoices. Based on that four-month study, the authors project an annual difference of almost $4,000 between actual discounts and the anticipated 40% discount for trade books as defined by B&T.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100876,"journal":{"name":"Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory","volume":"22 2","pages":"Pages 131-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00039-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72073592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"The Usefulness of Impact Factors in Serial Selection: A Rank and Mean Analysis Using Ecology Journals","authors":"Klaus G Altmann , G.E Gorman","doi":"10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00004-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00004-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates the usefulness of ISI Journal Impact Factors in making serial selection and deselection decisions. It shows that Impact Factors do not remain relatively constant from year to year; specifically, the rank order of 56 ecology titles was found to vary considerably over time. The median year-to-year variation in Impact Factors was found to be 21.9%, and the average variability of Impact Factors over a five-year period was 13.2%. The study also found a considerable degree of overlap in the average Impact Factor of serials in the ISI’s Ecology category. These findings cast doubt on the usefulness of relying on a single year’s JCR (Journal Citation Reports) to make informed selection/deselection decisions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100876,"journal":{"name":"Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory","volume":"22 2","pages":"Pages 147-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00004-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72073594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}