Re: PEAK

[Fred Friend <ucylfjf@ucl.ac.uk>]

Thank you for raising this topic, Bernie. I am very interested in the
"generalized subscription" model and have been talking to publishers about
it. If anybody knows how PEAK is progressing at Michigan, I am sure we
would all be glad to hear about it. Fred Friend

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At 01:04 29/08/98 EDT, Sloan, Bernie wrote:

>Maybe I'm just having a bad day, and being inept at searching the
>liblicense-l archives, but I don't seem to find any significant discussion
>on the list about the Michigan/Elsevier "pricing field trial" called PEAK
>(Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge). It's an experiment that's going
>on now involving ten university libraries and two corporate libraries, to
>determine pricing/licensing/subscription models libraries might prefer.
>Basically, it involves offering three licensing/pricing options for
>electronic access to Elsevier journals:
>
>1. Per article -- Pay by the drink.
>2. Traditional subscription -- i.e., subscription by title.
>3. Generalized subscription -- sort of a "pay by the six 
>    pack" version of #1 above.
>
>You can get more details from the 8/14/98 issue of the Chronicle of Higher
>Education (pp. A21-A22), or from the PEAK website:
>http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/peak
>
>I was just curious about what others might think of this
>"field trial".
>
>Bernie Sloan
>Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
>University of Illinois Office for Planning & Budgeting