Re: Usage-based pricing, a view

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

I passed on the original posting from you to Professor David Nicholas, the
director of the ciber institute in the department of information science
at City University London (nicky@soi.city.ac.uk). The site is
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/organisation/is/research/ciber. He has asked me
to pass on some comments.

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This interests me greatly. Could you tell me whether you are writing about
digital use and if so what makes the data primitive? As to the question of
the impact of usage based pricing, initial research by ciber using emerald
data here in the UK shows that it is the big new teaching universities
that are the biggest users almost as though the digital environment is
making up for lack of big physical library collections.

I (Anthony) would like to add to this comment in relation to the posting
from the retired publisher that are initial research seems to back up the
volatility he surmises in his point 7. Further ciber research (based on
further work on Emerald web logs and new work on Blackwell logs) is to be
presented at the Charleston Conference in November

Anthony Watkinson


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Okerson" <ann.okerson@yale.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:39 AM
Subject: Usage-based pricing, a view

> A colleague who was "once upon a time" a publisher, shared the following
> thoughts with me, but since no longer in that business, has requested
> anonymous contribution.  He makes very good points, for which many thanks.
> Ann Okerson

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