Re: American Economic Association Micheline Brown 19 Apr 2005 14:11 UTC
Judith, We have subscribed to these journals through Ebsco for a number of years and the Association has always honored our start date of January . I don't know if the association has a different publisher than when we first subscribed, but that might be the "problem" and it might take a while to educate them. Sincerely, Micheline ----- Original Message ----- From: "Koveleskie, Judith" <kovelesk@SETONHILL.EDU> To: <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:28 PM Subject: [SERIALST] American Economic Association > Our library recently subscribed to three journals from the above > association: American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, > and Journal of Economic Perspectives. We ordered through EBSCO and > requested a 1-1-2005 start date. EBSCO sent the order and payment on > 10-31-2004. However, instead of selecting the January date, the > association's computer is set up to send the next issue after the > payment is received. For 2 of the journals this was the December 2004 > issue and for the third it is January 2005. > > When I asked for an adjustment on this the publisher wouldn't budge. I > was told that we should delay next year's payment, so that we skip the > December issues and then our new subscription will start in January. We > can then purchase the December issues as backfiles, if they are > available. Of course how one could be expected to perfectly time this > is beyond me, especially because this is a bundled subscription and > there is that one title that we don't want to skip. > > I offered to pay for the 2 December issues that I received, if they > would put all the subscriptions on a calendar year basis. Since I > would be paying for everything that they have sent, I thought this was > reasonable. The answer was no. EBSCO has done everything possible to > convince them to make the change and the answer was still no. They > don't seem to realize that most people want complete volumes and that > libraries are especially concerned with this issue. > > Has anyone else had problems with this association? I don't think there > is anything that will happen to change this, but it feels good to get it > off my chest and warn others who may be ordering in the future. > > Judith A. Koveleskie > Periodicals Librarian > Seton Hill University > Reeves Memorial Library > Greensburg, PA 15601 > 724-838-7828 > This document may contain confidential information and is intended > solely for the use of the addressee. If you received it in error, please > contact the sender at once and destroy the document. The document may > contain information subject to restrictions of the Family Educational > Rights and Privacy and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Acts. Such information may > not be disclosed or used in any fashion outside the scope of the service > for which you are receiving the information. > >