RE: Science Direct Web Editions

["David Fowler" <dfowler@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>]

Of concern to my library about Web Editions, is it's absolute prohibition 
against using Web Editions product for standard (snail-mail) Interlibrary 
Loan (ILL) transactions.

We picked up many online Elsevier journals over the last year or so, by 
individually registering them, and would love to pick up Web Editions, but 
this prohibition (which seems to us to be very unreasonable, and clearly 
aimed at pressuring us to buy ScienceDirect) is stopping us.

This leaves us in a quandry: Many online Elsevier publications seem to 
longer be available to us individually (in spite of what Elsevier told us 
initially), so we are losing access to them. We cannot utilize Web 
Editions due to their license. We do not know when/if we will be avble to 
subscribe to Science Direct (which does not have that license restriction) 
due to its high cost.

So, is Elsevier then putting us the illogical position of having to drop
all Elsevier electronic products, and thus eliminating its presence on our
campus? This seems to me to run counter to all good business sense.

Has anybody else had this problem?

David C. Fowler
Electronic Resources Coordinator
Iowa State University
204 Parks Library
Ames, IA 50011
dfowler@iastate.edu
work (515) 294-0422
fax (515) 294-5525

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>>> "Hunter, Karen (ELS-US)" <k.hunter@elsevier.com> 06/11/00 07:12PM >>>
The Web editions license has been changed to permit walk-in users. 
Unfortunately, there has been a problem in updating the electronic version
on the Web site, for which we apologize, but be assured that walk-ins are
permitted.  And there are no plans to charge for the Web editions.
Indeed, you will hear announcements of enhancements in the Web editions
program shortly.

Karen Hunter
Senior Vice President
Elsevier Science

-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Resco [mailto:resco@admin.ogi.edu] 
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 12:37 AM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu 
Subject: Science Direct Web Editions


If there has already been a lot of discussion on this area, my apologies
as I have not been reading the lists postings.  I have Elsevier titles
with free web access (at least up to this point!) but Science Direct Web
editions seems a new spin on this.  After reading the license agreement, I
am rather disturbed by the definition of users which precludes any use of
the journal by members of the general public who may come in to use the
library's collection.  Have others had this concern and were you able to
change this stipulation?  Thanks--Carol Resco

Carol S. Resco
Director of Library Services
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
20000 NW Walker Road
Beaverton, OR 97006-8921
(503) 748-1060
(503) 748-1029 FAX
resco@admin.ogi.edu 

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