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Re: Repurchasing backfile information from ISI
I think the buzzword in the publishing industry now is "repackaging". Also known as how many times can we skin the same cat. Alan Edelson, Ph.D. Dennis Dillon wrote: > We recently spent two months evaluating and discussing a possible purchase > of the ISI Web of Science. This involved more than one committee and some > significant soul searching before we decided not to license it at this > time. > > One of the factors in our decision to turn down this subscription > opportunity was that we determined we had spent over $250,000 in the last > seven years for print and CD-ROM access to this information, and that if > we licensed the Web of Science, we would have to spend an additional 6 > figure dollar amount to gain access to this same information once again, > albeit reformated for the web. > > We did like the product, but we had some philosophical objections to > spending taxpayer dollars to purchase the same information from the same > company, three times in the past several years. In light of tight budgets > and taxpayer suspicion of higher education priorites -- there were several > unflattering headlines that we could imagine appearing in the state > newspapers that we simply didn't want to take a chance on reading. > > We are not against paying reasonble fees associated with reformatting data > for web access and have done so on occassion - but substantial charges to > access backfile information have not been an issue with 95% of the other > vendors marketing web data that we deal with. > > I am wondering how other libraries evaluate these types of purchases. If > there are substantial backfile charges involved for web access to > information that you have been paying for for years, how does this factor > into your decision making? > > --Dennis Dillon > Head, Collections and Information Resources > The University of Texas at Austin
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