RE: Science Direct Web Editions

["Louis Houle" <Houle@library.mcgill.ca>]

Correct me if I'm wrong but when you sign the license for Science Direct
Web Editions you only get online access to the paper journals you
subscribe to. There is nothing that can prevent you and your library to
fill up any ILL requests from your paper subscriptions.

I have to admit that, like you, I don't like this situation where a
license forbids you from doing any ILL. We try to change that also here in
our institution.

But for the Science Direct Web Editions I think that your institution
should sign up their license. By not doing so you are denying your library
users from getting an easy access to your Elsevier journals.



Date sent:      	Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:48:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:           	David Fowler <dfowler@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
Subject:        	RE: Science Direct Web Editions
To:             	liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Send reply to:  	liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu

> Of concern to my library about Web Editions, is it's absolute prohibition 
> against using Web Editions product for standard (snail-mail) Interlibrary 
> Loan (ILL) transactions.
> 
> We picked up many online Elsevier journals over the last year or so, by 
> individually registering them, and would love to pick up Web Editions, but 
> this prohibition (which seems to us to be very unreasonable, and clearly 
> aimed at pressuring us to buy ScienceDirect) is stopping us.
> 
> This leaves us in a quandry: Many online Elsevier publications seem to 
> longer be available to us individually (in spite of what Elsevier told us 
> initially), so we are losing access to them. We cannot utilize Web 
> Editions due to their license. We do not know when/if we will be avble to 
> subscribe to Science Direct (which does not have that license restriction) 
> due to its high cost.
> 
> So, is Elsevier then putting us the illogical position of having to drop
> all Elsevier electronic products, and thus eliminating its presence on our
> campus? This seems to me to run counter to all good business sense.
> 
> Has anybody else had this problem?
> 
> David C. Fowler
> Electronic Resources Coordinator
> Iowa State University
> 204 Parks Library
> Ames, IA 50011
> dfowler@iastate.edu
> work (515) 294-0422
> fax (515) 294-5525