Re: Science Online and archival access

["Karl A. Kocher" <kakocher@ucdavis.edu>]

It would have been more appropriate for the Science representative to
assert that individual libraries sign on without archival rights outside a
consortium setting because individually individual libraries lack the
bargaining power to do otherwise and are unable to individually resist
faculty pressure.  "Divide et impera."

On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Stange Kari wrote:

> Archival rights is one of the fundamental principles for the BIBSAM
> licensing consortium. The reasons are many, and these are well documented
> elsewhere. However, the Science representative has now informed me that
> archival rights is something of importance only to consortium
> administrators - that this is not a big concern for the individual
> libraries, who are happy to sign on without archival rights outside a
> consortium setting.
> 
> I am bewildered. Librarians, consortium co-ordinators, Science Online
> subscribers, other publishers; please enlighten me.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Kari Stange
> 
> Senior Executive Officer
> BIBSAM - The Royal Library's Department for National Co-ordination and
> Development
> Box 5039, SE-102 41 STOCKHOLM, Sweden
> E-mail: kari.stange@bibsam.kb.se
> Phone: + 46 8 463 4275, Mobile: + 46 73 917 3354, Fax: + 46 8 463 4274
> URL: http://www.kb.se/bibsam/bibsam.htm