Anne-Marie,

I think you’ll find that most publishers will not allow it in their licenses, although most licenses do include walk-in user access. Some do offer alumni access, but the costs are not cheap, and if you chose to charge for that access, I don’t think you’d recover the increased cost the publisher may be inclined to charge for the privilege.

I believe you might be able to include visiting scholars in the licenses if you ask the publisher specifically, but if they’re visiting anyway, they would qualify under walk-in access. It would be a lot of work, a lot of re-negotiating of licenses, and potentially a lot more money, I think.

 

I’ll be curious what others’ thoughts might be.

 

Best,

Leslie

 

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Subject: [SERIALST] question about digital serials access

 

Hello everyone,

I am in my first term at the iSchool at Syracuse, so do forgive me if this question is naïve. I would like to know if it is possible to give unaffiliated users access to electronic serials at a very large academic library? 

 

I want to research the practicalities of implementing, for unaffiliated users such as visiting scholars, a system similar to the alumni library cards universities like Columbia and Yale have in place. I am an alumna of Barnard College, so I have friends with Columbia library cards, and I live in New Haven with friends who work at Yale Libraries, so I am also aware of Yale’s policies. Would it be possible to offer a paid library card system for unaffiliated users that would also offer access to electronic journals? Perhaps a limited number of these, to assure only a specific and measurable increase in users to subscription serials? I am thinking specifically of a university like Yale, where these cards and their users would constitute a very small number, compared to the total number of users. My professor fears that vendors would not consider this idea to be at all appealing, and would reject it out of hand. She suggested that I contact members of this list, as you are the experts!

 

Any ideas or suggestions would be incredibly helpful! I am at a stage in my research where I can be very flexible, so please send anything and everything my way.

 

Thanks in advance,

Anne-Marie


Anne-Marie Lindsey

Library Science and Information Management

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