RE: Message from Kevin Guthrie, JSTOR's President

[BARBARA SCHADER <bschader@library.ucla.edu>]

I totally agree with Jim Morgan regarding simultaneous user licenses.  I
too much prefer to sign simultaneous user licenses and receive monthly use
logs so I can monitor actually use and adjust the number of paid
simultaneous users accordingly.

There are numerous problems with the FTE pricing model.  The most onerous
for me is that it is based on hypethetical/potential use NOT actual use;
the numbers for FTE pricing are impossible to accurately obtain for major
universities.  I refuse to sign FTE pricing models.

I was also very disappointed that FTE pricing models received much
attention at the last Charleston Conference but virtually nothing was said
of the alternative simultaneous user pricing model.

Barbara Schader
UCLA Biomedical Library
Head, Collection Development

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:42:15 EST "Morgan, James J" <morganj@iupui.edu> 
wrote:

> I would like to speak against one small part of David's argument, that
> about simultaneous use.  I am constantly confronted with medical
> publishers who tell me that because I am negotiating on behalf of a
> medical school with a certain number of FTE, I ought to pay an exorbitant
> amount for their product that they are sure all our physicans will use.
> 
> I much prefer a concurrent use license, plus logfiles, where I get proof 
> that our users are actually using their product.
> 
> I might add that a measured use license gives the university a strong
> incentive to close down independent proxy servers described in the JSTOR
> complaint.
> 
> Jim Morgan
> Indiana University School of Medicine