RE: Aggregator Embargoes -- more info

["Donnie Curtis" <dcurtis@admin.unr.edu>]

Some additional information about EBSCO's embargoed titles:

- EBSCOhost MARC records for individual titles now have notations about
  embargo periods.
- The information I shared is for Academic Search Premier. For Academic
  Search Elite, 440 of 1444 titles (29.8%) have embargo periods of 3
  months or longer. 295 (20.4%) have embargo periods of 12 months or
  longer.
- Liblicense-l subscribers were actually notified of the EBSCO practice by
  Sam Brook, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for EBSCO, in
  March:  "...some journals that don't now have embargoes may have
  embargoes in the future ..." I think we are starting to experience that
  future.

Sam Brook said "Many full text journals in aggregated databases have
embargo periods." How many seems to depend on the database. The ProQuest
Research Library (Core and all modules) has 10 titles with an embargo
period longer than 30 days.

Donnie Curtis
University of Nevada, Reno

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> [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu]On Behalf Of Donnelyn Curtis
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:30 PM
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Subject: Aggregator Embargoes
>
>
> I just took a look at the title list for EBSCO's Academic Search Premier
> and was shocked to realize that of the 2947 full text titles, 1460 (or
> 49.5%) have an embargo period of 3 months or longer. 1081 (36.7%) have an
> embargo period of at least 12 months. For these titles, the full text
> holdings statements on EBSCO's title lists and MARC records, which many of
> us are putting in our catalogs and on our web pages, says "to present."
>
> This is not only misleading to our users, but I'm not sure that all of us
> are aware that some of our databases are losing their currency. It is a
> trend that has crept up on us, or at least I was never informed. I haven't
> had a chance to look at title lists for other aggregator databases to see
> whether this is an industry trend or if it is limited to EBSCO.
>
> The publishers whose journals are embargoed in Academic Search Premier are
> familiar academic publishers: Carfax, Taylor & Francis, Blackwell,
> Blackwell Science, Routledge, Oxford University Press, American Institute
> of Physics, Springer-Verlag, Sage, Lauwrence Erlbaum, and several others.
>
> Donnie Curtis
> Director of Research Services
> University of Nevada, Reno Libraries