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Share your price increases during OA week

Posted by Stephen Francoeur (he/him) on October 20, 2011 at 10:50 am

Fed up with redonkulous price increases? There’s a grassroots effort getting steam for librarians to post to Twitter, Facebook, etc. details on any outrageous price increases they’ve been notified about this week. What started out as a thread on FriendFeed to express disgust at the American Chemical Society’s recent notifications of prices increases has now turned into a call for librarians to go public with details on those increases:

http://friendfeed.com/lsw/2be726cb/acs-is-asking-for-7-4-increase-if-we-wait-past-oct

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- Maura A. Smale (she/her)
  
  Participant
  October 24, 2011 at 9:24 pm
  
  Thanks for posting this, Stephen! I saw Barbara Fister’s tweets today — are there any others you’ve seen? Let me know — I’d be happy to do my little part by retweeting the bejeezus out of ’em!
  
  (In case folks haven’t see it, Barbara Fister’s piece in Inside Higher Ed last week is where the price increase tweets came from. It’s fantastic: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/occupy-knowledge-its-ours-after-all)
- Stephen Francoeur (he/him)
  
  Participant
  October 25, 2011 at 10:51 am
  
  @msmale: That FriendFeed thread has been periodically updated to include a few more comments with price increases from ACS noted. If I see any mentions, I’ll let you know.

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