Well I am in the final throws of getting the finishing touches on my 2006 journal renewal and as I mentioned in yesterday's blog, I am seriously considering dropping NEJM online from Ovid and picking it up from the publisher. As I mentioned in an earlier post NEJM has changed their Tiers for pricing. However, I could not find anything online about their 2006 Tiered pricing. Of course I emailed NEJM for an official price quote.

Well color me surprised when I was told that online access to NEJM would be a good $1200 more than I thought it would be. Institutional sales at NEJM emailed me the new 2006 Tier prices, and because my hospital is technically within a system we are bumped up to a higher price. Unfortunately our hospital library nor any other hospital libraries in the system share their online resources, we have separate IP addresses and we pretty much function as independently. But we are still penalized for being a part of a system.

So I have re-evaluate online access to NEJM again. I am guessing these new Tiers are going to be a problem for quite a few hospital libraries that are in the same boat as we are.
NEJM 2006 Pricing Tiers

****UPDATE****
NEJM has gotten back to me after I questioned why I would need to pay $6000 for online access when our the different hospital libraries within the system do not share access to online resources. According to NEJM I am allowed to go down to the $1900 level because we have seperate IPs and do not share our online resources. Still this goes to show you that you should double check your price quotes and challenge the provider.