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RE: UMI's image removal
Ramya Subramanian raises an important point. How do you manage licenses for full-text journal databases, when the agreements between vendor and publisher may not match the contract year? A library might be interested in a specific full-text vendor because of specific titles offered. What happens when a publisher decides to opt out? As I understand it, vendor/publisher licensing cycles are usually fairly short-term........generally a much shorter term than the library/vendor licenses. Do libraries ever do anything to make sure that titles covered at contract signing stay in effect until the end of the contract year?? Bernie Sloan ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant University of Illinois Office for Planning & Budgeting 338 Henry Administration Building 506 S. Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: 217-333-4895 Fax: 217-333-6355 e-mail: bernies@uillinois.edu >---------- >From: Ramya Subramanian[SMTP:afrs1@UAA.ALASKA.EDU] >Sent: Thursday, October 23, 1997 5:06 PM >To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu >Subject: UMI's image removal > >Hello everyone. > >We recently had a rather unnerving experience with UMI's ABI Inform >Proquest Researcher II on CD, when it chose to remove (retrospectively) >all the images of about 1/2 a dozen important titles. I am sure there are >a number of libraries who, in these times of limited resources, tend to >cut back on print subscriptions when full-text images are available >online. Keeping up with the vendor's adds and drops is turning out to be a >collection development nightmare. > >I am writing to find out from this group: > >a. how other libraries are dealing with the repercussions of cd-rom >vendors-publishers' agreements/disagreements, > >b. whether libraries are collectively voicing their concern about what >seems to be a fairly regular problem these days with full-text products, > >and > >c. how we can make our licenses with full-text product vendors more >sympathetic to library needs. > >I would appreciate hearing how some of the libraries have creatively dealt >with these issues. > >Thank you. > >-Ramya Subramanian > >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >+ >Electronic Resources Librarian Phone: (907) 786-1846 >Rm 114, Consortium Library Fax: (907) 786-6050 >University of Alaska Anchorage Email: afrs1@uaa.alaska.edu >3211 Providence Drive >Anchorage AK 99508 >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >++ > > >
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