RE: selling e-articles

["Bonn, Maria" <mbonn@umich.edu>]

In the late 1990's, Elsevier Science and the University of 
Michigan Library collaborated on experimenting with a number of 
for-fee access models in the PEAK project including one similar 
to that described below.  Reports on those experiments (and many 
related topics) can be found in the online book Economics and 
Usage of Digital Libraries (Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Wendy 
Pradt Lougee), available (for free) at 
<http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.5621225.0001.001>. Those 
following this thread might be particularly interested in the 
section on "The PEAK Project: A Field Experiment in Pricing and 
Usage of a Digital Collection."  I mention in this context 
because I don't believe the findings from the PEAK project have 
yet been fully mined by either publishers or libraries.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pippa Smart [mailto:pippa.smart@googlemail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 7:21 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: selling e-articles

I am not aware of any publishers selling a package of downloads - i.e.
setting up an account with a library to download up to a maximum number
for a fixed price (and cheaper than purchasing each one individually) -
although some libraries offer this (e.g.
www.ajol.info and - I think - the British Library).

Pippa Smart
Research Communication and Publishing Consultant PSP Consulting -
www.pspconsulting.org
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