Re: E-access to Elsevier titles

["Ombretta Perfetti" <biblioacq@rm.unicatt.it>]

We here in Italy at UCSC university had, untill last year, a special deal
arranged by Cilea library consortium with Elsevier for Science Direct.
This year we are asked up 148% and, what's more, the contract is for four
years with a 15% increase in 2005, a 16,5% increase in 2006 and a 12,7%
increase in 2007.

We cannot afford this concract so we are interested to single title
e-access but the charge of 25% of the print subscription has not
justified. Do you know if the price varies with the country and the
university?

Best Wishes

Ombretta Perfetti
Library - Acquisition Department
Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
L.go Francesco Vito, 1
00168 ROMA

tel + 39 06 3015 4264
fax + 39 06 3015 5849
e-mail biblioacq@rm.unicatt.it

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M Ros Doig" <M.R.Doig@derby.ac.uk>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 1:12 AM
Subject: E-access to Elsevier titles

> Hi everyone:  A similar email appeared on the Uk lis-e-journals but I am
> curious to know about the experience of my US colleagues. We here in the
> UK have special deals arranged for universities and other institutes of
> higher education with Elsevier and other publishers for electronic titles.
>
> At my university we cannot afford the Science Direct deal negotiated on
> behalf of HE with Elsevier, nor can we afford any of the 'bundles'
> offered. At best we may be able to select a few titles from our print
> collection and go for e-access on an individual basis. However we have
> been told that this will cost us 25% of the print subscription extra
> because it's outside of the HE deal. I'm sort of assuming that this is the
> standard price for e-access to individual print subs. Does anyone know how
> Elsevier justify this when other publishers only charge 10-15% of the
> print sub for accompanying e-access?
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Thank you and Best Wishes
>
> Ros Doig
> Email.  m.r.doig@derby.ac.uk