Re: Blackwell Policy

[Ulf Paepcke <paepcke@ukbf.fu-berlin.de>]

The Medical Library is part of the Free University of Berlin which itself
is a member of the socalled Friedrich-Althoff-Konsortium. In order to
circumvent the difficulties mentioned in the messages below the
Althoff-Konsortium negotiated a "paid trial period" with Blackwell
Science, starting in summer last year until the end of 2000. The same was
done with Kluwer and it both times worked very well.

Regards from Berlin

Dr. med. Ulf Paepcke
                           Univ.-Klinikum Benjamin Franklin
                           Medizinische Bibliothek
Tel. 030-8445 3511         Hindenburgdamm 30
Fax  030-8445 4454         12200 Berlin

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At 20:19 01.04.01 EDT, you wrote:
>Same case with Wiley, Elsevier, Springer.
>
>Doina G. Farkas
>Contracts and Development Officer
>UNT Libraries
>P.O. Box 305190
>Denton, TX 75203
>Voice Mail: (940) 565-2608
>Fax: (940) 369-8760
>E-Mail:  DFarkas@library.unt.edu
>
>>>> lamours@email.unc.edu 03/30/01 11:35AM >>>
>
>Last fall we initiated a conversation with Blackwell Science (which later
>included Blackwell Publishing) for their electronic journal package.  
>Their pricing and content are attractive.  But they just sent us the
>license this month, and with it the news that their policy requires a
>January - December subscription year and prohibits them from prorating.
>
>I have a strong initial reaction to this, but insufficient experience to
>judge wisely.  Do other publishers have and exercise such policies for
>their electronic packages, or is Blackwell outside the norm?
>
>-Selden