RE: Aggregator Embargoes

[Tom Williams <twilliam@bbl.usouthal.edu>]

I would hope that when and if MLA, ALA and the rest come up with
guidelines for all of this (and I surely hope they will very soon) one of
the guidelines will be to not accept deals that include embargoes.

Thomas L. Williams, AHIP
Director, Biomedical Libraries and
 Media Production Services
University of South Alabama
College of Medicine
Mobile, Al 36688-0002
tel. (334)460-6885
fax. (334)460-7638
twilliam@bbl.usouthal.edu

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Michael Simmons wrote:

> Donnie Curtis,
> 
> I too am surprised by the embargo periods for full text titles in the
> EBSCO collection.  What is especially disturbing for those of us in
> biomedical libraries is that the Biomedical Reference Collection: Expanded
> Edition has an embargo rate of 69%!  I haven't broken it down by 12 month,
> 3 month or 6 month embargo periods, but any period of time for medical
> research is unacceptable.  I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who is
> shocked by this.
> 
> Michael Simmons, MLIS, AHIP
> Library Manager, Sparrow Health System
> 1215 East Michigan Avenue
> Lansing, MI 48909
> voice: 517.483.2274
> fax: 517.483.2273
> simmon11@msu.edu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu]On Behalf Of Donnelyn Curtis
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 6:30 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