RE: FTE-based pricing

["Stefanie Wittenbach" <Stefanie.Wittenbach@utsa.edu>]

I personally believe that FTE-based pricing is quite harmful to 
the library community for the following reasons:

Use is not necessarily tied to the institution's FTE. Growing 
campuses are penalized because the price continues to increase, 
but the users of the resource may not be growing in the same way.

If anything, I think database pricing should be a flat rate or 
flat rate plus some factor for high use.

Stefanie

Stefanie Wittenbach
Assistant Dean, Collections
John Peace Library
The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX  78249-0671
stefanie.wittenbach@utsa.edu

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Porzio, Steve
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 6:31 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: FTE-based pricing

The American Statistical Association (ASA)  is considering a 
change from its current flat-rate charge for web access to its 
journals to a tiered, FTE-based pricing structure. I am seeking 
librarians familiar with various journal pricing structures who 
would be willing to answer a few questions and give me their 
general thoughts on this potential change. We strongly wish to 
avoid harming relations with our library patrons and would much 
prefer to collaborate with those who purchase our journals. If 
you are willing to provide input, please contact me at 
steve@amstat.org.

The ASA is, among many other things, a non-profit publisher of 
statistical journals. More info may be found at 
www.amstat.org/publications.

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Stephen Porzio
Associate Executive Director and
     Director of Operations
American Statistical Association
Alexandria, Virginia 22314-1943
www.amstat.org