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UMI's image removal
Hello everyone. We recently had a rather unnerving experience with UMI's ABI Inform Proquest Researcher II on CD, when it chose to remove (retrospectively) all the images of about 1/2 a dozen important titles. I am sure there are a number of libraries who, in these times of limited resources, tend to cut back on print subscriptions when full-text images are available online. Keeping up with the vendor's adds and drops is turning out to be a collection development nightmare. I am writing to find out from this group: a. how other libraries are dealing with the repercussions of cd-rom vendors-publishers' agreements/disagreements, b. whether libraries are collectively voicing their concern about what seems to be a fairly regular problem these days with full-text products, and c. how we can make our licenses with full-text product vendors more sympathetic to library needs. I would appreciate hearing how some of the libraries have creatively dealt with these issues. Thank you. -Ramya Subramanian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Electronic Resources Librarian Phone: (907) 786-1846 Rm 114, Consortium Library Fax: (907) 786-6050 University of Alaska Anchorage Email: afrs1@uaa.alaska.edu 3211 Providence Drive Anchorage AK 99508 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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