Does anyone have a good link of a site that epitomizes this
conversation? I keep getting fragments but have not found a comprehensive
treatment.
Best
regards,
Wilma
Weant Dague
Serials Coordinator
Benedictine College Library
St.
Benedict's Abbey Library
1020 North 2nd St.
Atchison, KS 66002
(913) 360-7610
wdague@benedictine.edu
From: SERIALST: Serials
in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Downing
Caitlin
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:38 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] FW: exclusive contracts between magazine, news
publishers and aggregators
Serialisters:
Has this issue been discussed at all on Serialist? I may
have missed it! (That a deal was made where EBSCO will now be the
sole aggregator for many high-use titles such as Time and Forbes and Sports
Illustrated? That these titles will no longer be available through
ProQuest (for example?)
Caitlin Downing
Library - Periodicals
Santa Rosa Jr. College
1501 Mendocino Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(707) 527-4543
There’s actually a LOT of discussion on the web about this (some
of it going back to last summer).
Just google
EBSCO
"exclusive contracts"
if you want to read more. Apparently there’s a longer list
of titles than Time and Forbes which was just announced at ALA
Midwinter. Here’s one I saw yesterday on a school library website:
“So EBSCO will now be the SOLE aggregator for such titles as:
* Time
* Time for Kids
* History Today
* People
* People Espanol
* Sports Illustrated
* Sports Illustrated for Kids
* US News & World Report
* Entrepreneur
* Forbes
* Fortune
* Harvard Business Review
* Kiplinger's Personal Finance
* Money
* Discover
* National Review
* New Republic
* Science
* New Scientist “
If all of these are really included, certainly does not bode
well.
KMcG
Here is more on the item regarding publications being removed
from Gale that Kathy sent around earlier this week. There is extensive
discussion about this issue taking place on the Communications Librarians’
listserv. It’s indicative of the troubled state of the publishing industry.
-NP