Yes, we at the Univ. of RI learned earlier this year that online subscriptions to AAA journals would no longer be offered to libraries. Only print subs will be available. I contacted them and told them that the era of print was long gone and they would lose us as subscribers if an online option was not available, and that students and researchers at URI would have to do without their content. They replied that they understood that, but that our faculty and graduate students would be able to gain access to the journals through their AAA memberships.

Obviously, they believe that institutional subscriptions are cannibalizing their memberships and they are trying to reverse this by restricting online access to AAA members -- the ability of non-members to access this scholarship be damned. I think this is just one more sign of the dying throes of the subscription model.


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Taylor, Liane R <ltaylor@txstate.edu> wrote:

All –

 

Recently, EBSCO subscription services notified our library that American Accounting Association (AAA) journals would no longer be available for online subscriptions. Instead, online access would be available via EBSCO’s Business Source databases.

 

I was concerned about this, because aggregator database access is not perpetual (post-cancellation) access, and we continue to want perpetual access to these journals. So, I verified this announcement with the Association.

 

It is the case that the AAA is not selling online subscriptions to libraries to their journals after 2013, and as a result perpetual access will not be available for issues published after December 2013. However, new content will be preserved in Portico, should distribution options change in the future.

 

Libraries that had online subscriptions to AAA journals prior to 2014 will have perpetual access to those issues via AAA Digital Library.

 

Please see the email below from Diane Hazard, Director of Publications.

 

Best,

Liane

 

Liane Taylor

Continuing Resources Librarian

Texas State University
Albert B. Alkek Library

601 University Drive • San Marcos • TX • 78666

ltaylor@txstate.edu • 512.245.2643 

 

 

 

From: Diane Hazard [mailto:diane@AAAHQ.ORG]
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 10:25 AM
To: Taylor, Liane R
Cc: Lisa Habblitz
Subject: RE: Question from Library about perpetual access - FW: AAA Journals in Online Format for institutions

 

Dear Liane,

 

Lisa asked me to clarify our new online subscriptions for you. We realize that your library prefers to subscribe to important journals that have perpetual access and appreciate that these include AAA journals.  Since the AAA is not selling electronic access to our journals directly to libraries at this time, perpetual access is not available.  New content is preserved at Portico should the AAA’s distribution options change in the future. 

 

I am truly sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

 

Sincerely,

Diane

 

DIANE HAZARD | Director of Publications
American Accounting Association
5717 Bessie Dr, Sarasota, FL 34233
P: 941.556.4107 | F: 520.744.5096

E: diane@aaahq.org
W: www.aaahq.org

 

 

 

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