Most Expensive Journals at the TMC Library

Non-librarians often have the mistaken idea that because a publication is online it is cheaper than print, and that libraries actually save money by going fully digital.

The truth is, academic libraries pay many, many times the list price to provide the convenience of online institutional access, and prices increase each year.

We hope the following infographic will give our users a sense of how much annual subscriptions to popular medical journals and journal packages cost the TMC Library.

The Value of the most expensive journals at the TMC Library
1. Science Direct - $880K
2. Springer/Nature - $200K
3. JAMA - $60K
4. Science (AAAS) - $64K
5. Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) - $54K
6. BMJ - $41K
7. AACR - $34K
8. New England Journal of Medicine - $33K
9. ASM - $20K
10. Pediatrics, Immunology, Gene Therapy - $25K