FW: [SERIALST] Elsevier 'associated' subscriptions -- Jane Burke Stephen Clark 19 Apr 2005 18:35 UTC
-----Original Message----- From: Burke, Jane Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:01 PM To: 'SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum' Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Elsevier 'associated' subscriptions You have hit on a bone of contention for my company. We have moved away from a traditional print library to a Digital Library. When we first began our reduction to the print four years ago, I received a phone call from a scientist here who said that Elsevier wanted to charge him the institutional rate to subscribe to a Tetrahedron package title (and you can imagine how much that would be at an institutional rate!) It was, as you say, because the library here had canceled it in print. (But we did have other libraries in our system that retained it in print. That didn't seem to matter.) Despite discussions with Elsevier we have never been able to get them to agree to discontinue this practice or take into account the $$ we have spent on the online. So, this have been going on at least for a few years with no resolution. ~~~~~~ Jane D. Burke Senior Advisor Groton Laboratories Pfizer Inc PGRD Library MS 8118-05 Eastern Point Road Groton CT 06340 (860) 441-0683 (voice) (860) 441-8519 (fax) Jane.Burke@pfizer.com "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU]On Behalf Of Blake, Julie C. Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:29 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Elsevier 'associated' subscriptions Jennifer, Well, I haven't heard of this at all, because I'm not even sure what you're saying. By "restricting" do you mean that Elsevier will not allow individual faculty to subscribe if the organizational library doesn't? That seems like a real way to lose even more customers! Except for research institutions, most of us can't afford to support individual faculty research, so I can think of lots of instances in which an individual would want a subscription that the library doesn't have. Or are they simply refusing to allow the issues to be donated to a library? That I can more easily understand. Julie Julie C. Blake Collection Management Coordinator and Asst. Professor LR&TS, St. Cloud State University 320-308-4756 jcblake@stcloudstate.edu > -----Original Message----- > From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum > [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of van Sickle, Jennifer > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:18 AM > To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU > Subject: [SERIALST] Elsevier 'associated' subscriptions > > Dear Serialst-ers, > > > > Perhaps I missed this, but I was unaware of Elsevier's policy > of restricting individual subscriptions unless the > corresponding library subscribes too. This applies to some > of their journals, but the customer service rep did not know > the criteria for choosing which journals this applies to. > Does anyone know if this is a new policy, or is something > that was under my radar? > > > > Thanks. > > > > -Jennifer > > > > Jennifer van Sickle > > Serials Librarian/Sciences Coordinator > > Trinity College Library > > 300 Summit St. > > Hartford, CT USA 06106 > > > > phone: 860-297-2250 > > fax: 860-297-2251 > > jennifer.vansickle@trincoll.edu > > >