Re: electronic journals CCC

[Kerry Kresse <kkresse@library.wisc.edu>]

Hi, Sharon.  The costs that people are recovering are not related to the
subscription price.  Rather libraries try to recover the costs incurred
for photocopying and mailing articles via interlibrary loan.  Libraries
generally don't make money on interlibrary loans, but I suppose there are
one or two out there that do.

Kerry L. Kresse, Physics Librarian     kkresse@library.wisc.edu
Physics Library,    University of Wisconsin -- Madison
1150 University Avenue,   Madison, WI  USA  53706
Office:  (608) 262-8696;  Physics Library:  (608) 262-9500
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Physics/

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S.MATTERN@KARGER.CH wrote:

> >Some vendors don't seem to be able to distinguish
> >between cost recovery by a library and a commercial enterprise of an
> >information broker or information company that actually makes a profit on
> >this activity.
>
> I guess I must be one of them.
>
> Could you please clarify what *cost recovery* means in this case? Once you
> recover the cost of the subscription, do you stop charging an ILL fee or
> does the cost recovery have to do with the administrative costs associated
> with ILL?
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
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