[INDOLOGY] [Library Materials Price Index (LMPI)] Re: Fwd: New publication

[Richard Mahoney | Indica et Buddhica]

Dear Antonio &c.,

This material may help to ground the discussion.


Library Materials Price Index (LMPI)

The annual index tracking the prices of print and electronic
monographs and serials

http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/cmtes/ats-lmpi


Prices of U.S. and Foreign Published Materials:

http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/collect/serials/spi

https://alair.ala.org/handle/11213/88



Best, Richard



On 2016-04-14 19:26, Antonio Ferreira-Jardim wrote:
> Totally agree Artur.
> 
> Professor Wujastyk has often advocated for authors to use Open
> Source publication platforms. I think we should all support his
> call.
> 
> Apart from prestige, I cannot understand from an academic
> perspective why an author would choose to publish with publishers
> like Brill - a for-profit company with shareholders and hunger for
> ever increasing profits. I notice that Brill have never endowed a
> professorship in Indology - yet they have profited from the
> publications in our field for quite some time. It would seem
> unethical for academics to support them - especially in the present
> climate where our entire field is under attack from short-sighted
> governments on the one hand and fundamentalist political groups on
> the other.
> 
> Indology is already in a precarious enough position, why make its 
> fruits even more inaccessible? There's no point being the last
> endowed professor of Sanskrit publishing fabulous original research
> of works if noone can read them...
> 
> Apologies for the rant.
> 
> Kind regards, Antonio
> 
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> 
>> I hate to spoil the fantastic news about the two important
>> publications.
>> 
>> The prices. Prof. Bronkhorst's book's price ($ 199)is close to one
>> third of my monthly pension. Prof. Zysk's ($ 299) - close to one
>> half of my pension.
>> 
>> Excellent work there, on the publishers side, but their prices
>> exclude me, definitely, from their prospective buyers list.
>> 
>> Is my University's Library going to buy the books? One cannot be
>> certain, not considering financial restrictions faced by the
>> educational institutions in Poland.
>> 
>> Artur Karp Warsaw Poland
>> 
>> 2016-04-14 8:42 GMT+02:00 Kenneth Gregory Zysk <zysk at hum.ku.dk>:
>>> 
>>> Also from Brill but in the Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series is my
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The Indian system of human marks in 2 vols. Brill, 2016. ISBN: 
>>> 978-90-29972-6.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://www.brill.com/products/reference-work/indian-system-human-marks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 
Best,
>>> 
>>> Kenneth Zysk
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> From: INDOLOGY [mailto:indology-bounces at list.indology.info] On
>>> Behalf Of Johannes Bronkhorst Sent: 13. april 2016 13:36 To:
>>> indology at list.indology.info Subject: [INDOLOGY] New publication
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dear friends and colleages,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> My latest book has come out:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> How the Brahmins Won: From Alexander to the Guptas. Brill, 2016.
>>> ISBN: 9789004315198.
>>> 
>>> http://www.brill.com/products/book/how-brahmins-won
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Johannes Bronkhorst
>>> 
>>> 
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