Lee Hadden writes: \” The American Institute of Physics has a new release on a settlement
with several societies of a subscription conflict with a dealer regarding
institutional (library) and personal subscriptions.
The American Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the American
Chemical Society jointly announced today that they have received
$250,000 in settlement of their potential civil claims against a Los
Angeles-based journal subscription service, Eastwood
Books, and its manager, Ms. Jung Shin.
Each of the non-profit scientific societies that participated in
the joint settlement publishes scientific journals sold at
institutional subscription rates to companies, libraries and
universities. In order to make these journals more widely available
to individual scientists and researchers, these societies also offer
their members individual subscriptions at significant
discounts from institutional rates. The societies received
information alleging that Eastwood Books and Ms. Shin were filing
false society membership applications in order to obtain multiple
subscriptions of the scientific journals at individual membership
rates. They also were alleged to have filed overlapping false claims
for \’missing\’ issues in order to assemble additional full sets of
certain journals. Eastwood Books and Ms. Shin then allegedly sold
the journals they received to institutions overseas at institutional
rates that may have been over ten times the individual membership
rates that the societies received for the subscriptions.
Lee Hadden writes: \” The American Institute of Physics has a new release on a settlement
with several societies of a subscription conflict with a dealer regarding
institutional (library) and personal subscriptions.
The American Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the American
Chemical Society jointly announced today that they have received
$250,000 in settlement of their potential civil claims against a Los
Angeles-based journal subscription service, Eastwood
Books, and its manager, Ms. Jung Shin.
Each of the non-profit scientific societies that participated in
the joint settlement publishes scientific journals sold at
institutional subscription rates to companies, libraries and
universities. In order to make these journals more widely available
to individual scientists and researchers, these societies also offer
their members individual subscriptions at significant
discounts from institutional rates. The societies received
information alleging that Eastwood Books and Ms. Shin were filing
false society membership applications in order to obtain multiple
subscriptions of the scientific journals at individual membership
rates. They also were alleged to have filed overlapping false claims
for \’missing\’ issues in order to assemble additional full sets of
certain journals. Eastwood Books and Ms. Shin then allegedly sold
the journals they received to institutions overseas at institutional
rates that may have been over ten times the individual membership
rates that the societies received for the subscriptions.
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