Re: Checking in print plus online subscriptions? Koveleskie, Judith 03 Oct 2009 16:28 UTC
I agree. For some titles, the online that comes with print seems to be considered "complimentary" and therefore permanent access is not guaranteed, unlike titles where you a specifically paying for the online. We are moving to online wherever possible and so we have stopped binding all print because we foresee that in the future it will be discarded. We just move it to Princeton files for retention and this seems to work well. Judith A. Koveleskie Periodicals Librarian Seton Hill University Reeves Memorial Library Greensburg, PA 15601 724-838-7828 ________________________________ From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum on behalf of julie su Sent: Sat 10/3/2009 1:05 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Checking in print plus online subscriptions? Just please understand that if you cancel the subscription in the future, most likely you will lose online access to the back issues that you have paid for. On the other hand, If you have kept your print copies, even you lose the online access, you still have the print issues. However, if you have discarded the print issues, you will lose both print and online issues when a subscription is cancelled. Julie -- On Fri, 10/2/09, Rose Marie Parsons <roseparsons@BOISESTATE.EDU> wrote: From: Rose Marie Parsons <roseparsons@BOISESTATE.EDU> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Checking in print plus online subscriptions? To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 4:07 PM Hello, Albertsons Library has adopted a policy that print does not need to be retained once we have online access through a paid subscription. When the library orders print + online because that is the only subscription option that provides online access, we may discard print upon receipt. Sometimes the subscription agent can persuade the publisher to refrain from sending the print. -- Rose Marie Parsons Albertsons Library Boise State University P.O. Box 46 Boise, Idaho 83707-0046 Telephone: 208-426-4224 Fax: 208-334-2126 On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Williams, Mary Welch <mwill108@utmem.edu <http://us.mc379.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mwill108@utmem.edu> > wrote: Good morning!! We're facing further staff reductions and I'm trying to find ways for us to spend our precious time on things that really matter. We've been moving subscriptions to online only where economically feasible, but we still receive titles where online only is not an option. We know that our print titles don't get used, we've got numbers that tell us so. I've suggested that we not check in the print issue of our print+ subscriptions. We have 41 such titles. My supervisor would like to know if others have done this and if there have been any ramifications, so I am asking you. Thanks for your help, Mary Mary Williams (mwill108@uthsc.edu <http://us.mc379.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mwill108@uthsc.edu> ) Serials Librarian University of Tennessee Health Science Center Library and Biocommunications Center 877 Madison Avenue, Room 250 Memphis, TN 38163 Phone: (901) 448-5154 FAX: (901) 448-5402