RE: Online services to contiguous research part

[nbaum@notes.cc.sunysb.edu]

If SUNY Stony Brook is typical, most libraries have a variety of contracts
with vendors.  Here we have subscriptions based on user community, based
on actual usage, and also based on simultaneous users. I'm in the process
of switching some of ours to usage from subscription because the
subscriptions costs have not been justified by use, but we don't want to
give up access altogether.  Of course, the advantage of the subscription
is predictability, which makes budgeting much simpler. I guess what I'm
getting at is that flexibility would probably be appreciated by most of
us.

--Nathan Baum  (nathan.baum@sunysb.edu)

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Wayne Smith <wsmith@greenwood.com>@lists.yale.edu on 03/31/2000 06:14:05 PM
To:   liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject:  RE: Online services to contiguous research part


I would chime in that Greenwood hears from customers who would rather have
licenses that are based on size of community or user group; at the same
time, we also hear from customers who would prefer licenses that are
pegged to projected use. I'd certainly be interested in any comments on
this particular point.
                              Wayne Smith

                              wsmith@greenwood.com

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 morganj@iupui.edu wrote:

> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:30:04 EST
> From: morganj@iupui.edu
> Reply-To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Subject: RE: Online services to contiguous research parts
>
> For this reason I prefer vendors that license by concurrent usage rather
> than by size of the institution. The onus is then on the university to
> protect the data and not grant priveleges to all and sundry without
> careful consideration.
>
> Jim Morgan
> morganj@iupui.edu