Hello Sarah,

There’s a difference in a publication that is consistently late (e.g. I have an ancient history title, which is so far behind datewise, that it’s almost ancient history), but you’re paying for the next published year not the next calendar year, and those that you seem to keep paying for that are delayed. I thought EBSCO’s rule of thumb was to change status to “EBSCO will order when current” if the title was 1 ½ years behind. I would ask EBSCO to review. Ask your rep to escalate to the title department if necessary. Another option is to cancel the title until/if the publisher gets their act together. Sometimes they’re chronically behind and sometimes it’s the pre-cursor to suspension or ceasing. You can always restart a subscription if they get back on track.

Leslie

Hello. I don’t know whether this is a real problem but it happens to me every year with a few Ebsco titles and it rankles  me. I wonder if it bothers other serials people. I always find a small number of titles, usually around 8 in my Ebsco renewals for which they want me to renew with payment for the next year when we renewed with payment the previous year but didn’t receive any issues due to delays in publication. It seems to me that the start date for the renewal should then be the previous year, i.e. 2014 instead of 2015,  with no cost until it catches up. For some titles that happens, but I always have a few where I am paying 2 or more years in advance of receiving the publication. I’ve tried arguing but it doesn’t seem to help. Ebsco either doen’t see it as a problem or doesn’t have a solution.

Sarah M. Barnard

Serials Librarian

Hebrew Union College Klau Library

3101 Clifton Ave.

Cincinnati, OH 45220

Telephone: 513-487-3282

Fax: 513-221-0519

Email: sbarnard@huc.edu

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