Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 07:40:42 -0600
From: Barbara Koehler <bmk@WELCH.JHU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Amer Assn for Cancer Research (JoAnne Griffin)

We are in the same boat. Very angry about this policy. I too wrote to the
publisher and got no reply. I see a lot of price increases looming for 2001
and we don't need this kind of bundling to add to our woes.
Barbara Koehler
Welch Medical Library
Johns Hopkins

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Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 3:34 PM
Subject: Amer Assn for Cancer Research (JoAnne Griffin)

> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 14:48:20 -0500
> From: JoAnne Griffin <joanne.griffin@TUFTS.EDU>
> Subject: Amer Assn for Cancer Research
>
> Hello, all
> Have any of you folks out there been told that the American Assn for
> Cancer Research is now selling its 5 journals in an all-or-nothing
> institutional package? In other words, you must subscribe to all five
> titles, or you can't get any of them. As a health science library, we
> subscribe to four of the journals and evidently they are coming out with
> a new title called Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. We don't like being
> told we have to get the new journal; our funds are extremely tight this
> year, and adding new journals is not going to happen. Also, our 2 other
> campuses get one of these journals each; does the publisher expect that
> they will subscribe to 5 journals when they are only interested in one?
> How are you all handling this? Our emails to the publisher have not been
> answered and their web site has no information about it.
>
> Is my information about this policy correct? Frankly, it sounds so
> unreasonable that I can't believe they are really serious.
>
> JoAnne Griffin
> Serials Librarian
> Tufts University - Health Sciences Library.
>