Serials Solutions freezes prices: offering extra 25% discount for small libraries, dropping $150 fee.(Industry News)(Brief Article)

With public and academic library budgets cut to the quick nationwide while prices for journals and other items continue to rise, many of those facilities are finding it difficult to meet current costs as well as plan for future spending. Serials Solutions is the first vendor to provide some relief: the company has announced a price freeze that will last through January 1, 2004. The company has vowed that the "price schedule will not increase for its A-Z title list reports, full MARC records for e-journals, and OpenURL link resolver, Article Linker." On top of the price freeze, Serials Solutions is offering community and junior colleges an additional 25 percent discount "on all …