EBSCO's statement (2 messages) Marcia Tuttle 05 Apr 2001 20:28 UTC
----------(1) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:05:56 -0400 From: Steve Black <blacks@MAIL.STROSE.EDU> Subject: Re: EBSCO's Statement (Aurora Ioanid) Sam Brooks of EBSCO made the same points, supported by additional factual detail, in a presentation at an Eastern New York chapter of ACRL conference last Fall. I was happy to see that his e-mail was consistent with his conference presentation. For those who didn't see the message, one piece of it says "Full text databases are here to stay, but the favorable ratio of content and access may not be. . . .[aggregated] Databases should be seen as a complement (not a replacement) to print and electronic journal collections". The detail Mr. Brooks offered at the conference included an account of the struggle EBSCO has with keeping publishers on board. What follows is my interpretation of Mr. Brooks' words: Currently, a publisher gets much less income per subscriber from a full-text license than they receive from a print subscription. If libraries cancel print en masse because they see online packages as viable substitutes, publishers will either 1) stop providing content to full-text providers or 2) demand much higher payment for full-text content. The bottom line is that none of us should consider titles in a package like EBSCOhost Academic Search (or any other full-text package) as direct substitutes for print subscriptions. Finally, I'd like to add that it seems to me EBSCO is doing as good a job as any of the aggregators of keeping publishers on board. I think we should appreciate Mr. Brooks' candor, and realize that what he's saying applies to all the full-text vendors, whether they're willing to say it in public or not. Steve Black Reference, Instruction, and Serials Librarian Neil Hellman Library The College of Saint Rose 392 Western Ave. Albany, NY 12203 (518) 458-5494 blacks@mail.strose.edu > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:54:42 -0400 > From: Aurora Ioanid <aioanid@MONMOUTH.EDU> > Subject: EBSCO's Statement > > Hi all, > > I apologized if this has already been discussed, but I would like to ask > if there are/were any comments about EBSCO's e-mail: "Attn: Academic > Librarians", on March 19, 2001. It seems that there are a lot of > implications about collection development issues, cataloging and > integrity of serial collections. Beyond what I thought I already knew > apropos of online journals... > Could someone please direct me to serials-related publications which > discuss these publisher/trade/aggregators/e-journal issues? > > Aurora Ioanid > Bibliographic Control > Guggenheim Library > Monmouth University, NJ ----------(2) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:55:29 -0400 From: Pat Newland <patnew@CSONLINE.NET> Subject: Re: EBSCO's Statement (Aurora Ioanid) Hi, This has been discussed at length on Liblicense-l lately. You can find its archives and a lot of other information at: http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/index.shtml Pat Newland Clarion University of Pennsylvania