E-Notes from Swets Blackwell

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Of possible interest for liblicense-l readers.

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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:37:59 -0500 
From: Marybeth Montgomery <MMontgomery@us.swetsblackwell.com>
To: e-notes <e-notes@us.swetsblackwell.com>
Subject: E-Notes from Swets Blackwell

E-Notes  from Swets Blackwell
for Tuesday, April 1, 2003
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There has been confusion and questions recently about the passing of the
deadline for publisher acceptance and extended grace periods.  While many
libraries have taken a wait and see approach, Swets Blackwell has
contacted publishers and confirms many have announced that the 2003
subscription gracing agreed to as part of the RoweCom Prepaid Order
Agreement will be extended to all RoweCom/divine prepaid customers,
regardless of subscription agent the library chooses to work with.

Bob Hershman, Operations Manager for the American Libraries Association
states, "Victims of divine/RoweCom are victims regardless of their
subscription agent.  All victims will and should be treated fairly
regardless of their subscription agent."

Additionally, AMA Publishing released the following:  "AMA Publishing is
planning on providing service to all subscribers of AMA publications
through the end of calendar year 2003 who paid RoweCom/Divine/Faxon for
their 2003 subscriptions and where RoweCom/Divine/Faxon did not reimburse
AMA.

Including ALA and AMA Publishers, seven top STM publishers have stated
gracing policies will be offered to all victims, regardless of agent.

To avoid any further interruption of service, libraries are free to select
the subscription agent that best fits their library needs while not
compromising their prepayments and any possible publisher gracing.


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