Re: charge for CD-ROM site licensing

[David Goodman <dgoodman@princeton.edu>]

According to their web site, they are presently selling it, or trying to,
for $100, to current members only--current membership costs $150 for a
institutional member and $95 for a personal member.  The current quarterly
issues seem to be available only in print. The value of a site license for
an online version of their journal, including current issues, might well
be worth a little more than the current annual institutional price.  
There is little value in a CD of the backfile, single-user or
site-licensed, while the current issues are not available electronically.  
I cannot imagine any market except for those who lack back volumes--and
then a single-user version would do.  As biology selector I sometimes
receive such disks free; they go in a storage cabinet, uncataloged.  It is
a shame they did not ask some questions before adopting an outmoded
technology.  In that context their name does sound a little ironic.

Dr. David Goodman
Princeton University 
and
Palmer School of Library & Information Science, Long Island University
dgoodman@princeton.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: "DuBose, Stefanie" <DUBOSES@mail.ecu.edu>
Date: Monday, January 6, 2003 5:46 pm
Subject: charge for CD-ROM site licensing

> I'm posting this question on behalf of a colleague here at ECU, and 
> of the lists I'm on, I thought this would be the best one for an answer.  
> He is an editor for Historical Archae ology, and they recently put all 
> their back issues (quarterly, 1967-2000) on a 2 CD set.  How is a site 
> license chargenormally determined for such a product?
> 
> Personally, I would think that the cost would depend on the time,
> equipment, personnel, etc. required to produce such a product.  Please
> send all responses directly to me.
> 
> Stefanie DuBose
> duboses@mail.ecu.edu