TITLE CHANGE: >Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law & Practice (1999- v7(2005)) changed to Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (v8#1 (2005-))
NEW JOURNAL: Charleston Law Review (2006- )
NEW JOURNAL: Journal of Animal Law (2005- )
NEW JOURNAL: Journal of Animal Law & Ethics (2006- )
I added an option to http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/selecting.aspx that lists U.S. law journals with modified prices, based on all journals having an identical hypothetical user-input cites/$cost ratio. Editors/publishers may be interested in seeing what price their journal should cost in order to equal the citation-based cost-effectiveness of another journal. E.g. California Law Review and N.Y.U Law Review each cost $50 per annum, but their cites/cost ratios are a little different, 8.55 (California) and 9.33 (N.Y.U.). So if California wants to see what price would allow it to equal the cost-effectiveness of N.Y.U., entering "9.33" shows that California L. Rev. should be priced around $46
Are legal academics willing to fight at all, the current escalating price trends of law journals? Part of the battle can be fought by refusing to send article submissions to over-priced (usually commercially published) journals. But even in the arena of competing U.S. non-profit law reviews it's worthwhile to reward journals that keep a reasonable utility to price ratio (as measured by cites per $ cost). For example, if ranking Boston College and North Carolina's law reviews by impact-factor they both are listed 23rd among U.S. General law journals. North Carolina, aside from having absolutely more citations, ranks much higher on cites per cost so it's a more economical journal and should be rewarded for such.
| cites | cites/cost | |
| 23 Boston College Law Review | 1526 | 6.09 |
| 23 North Carolina Law Review | 2254 | 7.99 |
Assuming that other measures are reasonably equal it would good if authors would look at a journal's cites to cost ratio and use it in evaluating which journal to publish with. And would seriously hesitate to send articles to journals with stratospheric institutional subscription price tags.
TITLE CHANGE: Across Borders: International Law Journal, changed to Gonzaga Journal of International Law (2005- )
NEW: Journal of International Law and International Relations (2005- )
TITLE CHANGE: Texas Tech Journal of Texas Administrative Law, changed to Texas Tech Administrative Law Journal (Volume 7, Number 1 - )
ADDED: (not a new title) Rutgers Law Record (an online journal)
TITLE CHANGE: Washington University Law Quarterly, changed to Washington University Law Review (v84(2006)- )