IMPORTANT LETTER SENT TO GERMAN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES AND EDITORS ASKING THEIR COOPERATION IN BRINGING ABOUT A REDUCTION IN THE COST OF CURRENT GERMAN PERIODICALS

摘要

During the past eight years, workers in the biological and medical sciences have viewed with concern and dismay the constantly increasing cost of German scientific periodicals. It was at first hoped that this was merely a temporary result of the high prices necessary during the period of readjustment following the war, and the unstabilized value of the Reichsmark. But the rehabilitation of the Reichsmark had no effect upon the cost of the periodicals, which continued to increase, and subscribers found themselves paying exorbitant amounts for those journals. Libraries have been attempting to maintain these subscriptions at rates which are now generally recognized to be prohibitive. (See pages 11-12 of inclosed reprint).