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Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 10:40:32 -0400
From: "Law, John" <john.law@BELLHOWELL.INFOLEARNING.COM>
Subject: Re: Summary of responses to journals in aggregator sets (Naomi Lloyd)

Naomi & All,

As the product manager for ProQuest MARC Records, I can confirm that the
sales rep Naomi spoke to was correct. Once a customer has purchased our MARC
records (at ~ $1/record for individual institutions), they can download a
complete set of records whenever needed as often as needed. (Internally, the
source data is updated monthly.) In addition, customers can define a regular
schedule for automatically receiving downloads of either the complete set of
records or just the records that have been updated. Most often customers
will elect to receive a set of update records each month.

This update service is provided free of charge for the first year along with
the purchase of records . There is a small fee to continue this update
service for subsequent years (~ 50 cents/record for individual
institutions).

Thanks for the opportunity to provide this clarification. Please contact me
if you have additional questions, concerns or suggestions. Customers ready
to purchase ProQuest MARC Records are better served by contacting their
sales rep.

John
_____________________________________________
John M. Law
Director, Product Management - ProQuest Platform
734-761-4700 ext 3729

Bell & Howell Information and Learning
300 North Zeeb Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
www.bellhowell.infolearning.com
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> ---------- Original message ----------
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:18:54 -0700
> From: Naomi Lloyd <lloyd@TECHBC.CA>
> Subject: Re: Summary of responses to journals in aggregator sets,
>                   etc. (Ev erett Allgood)
>
> Hi All,
>
> One of the challenges of procuring these records is keeping them up to
> date. The journal coverage tends to change fairly regularly and
> maintaining correct holdings information could be a challenge.  A
> colleague suggested that with EBSCOhost journals a solution might be to
> download the records every couple of months (deleting the records for the
> previous download). This would preclude the time-consuming task of
> manually checking the list of journals covered.
>
> This colleague felt that this approach would not be possible with ProQuest
> databases as one paid a fee every time one downloaded the records.  I
> spoke to a sales rep. at ProQuest at a recent conference and he said that
> this was not the case.  That one could download the records any number of
> times after an initial fee.  I'm not sure that he really understood the
> problem, though.
>
> Naomi
> _____________________________
>
> Naomi Lloyd
> Information Resources Specialist
> Technical University of British Columbia
> 2620 Surrey Place Mall
> Surrey, BC V3T 2W1
> Ph: (604) 586-6018
> Fax: (604) 586-6025
> http://portal.techbc.ca

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Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 11:14:04 -0400
From: David Goodman <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Summary of responses to journals in aggregator sets (Naomi Lloyd)

Proquest  is a flat fee--you certainly do NOT pay per article.
however, as not all the journals on proquest are available as page
images, and even for the journals that are, not all the articles
are--some of them are even just tables of contents without even
abstracts--I do not see how any library can list them in the catalog--
at least without a warning on each one.

Has Proquest considered the possibility of selling a subset of those
journals only for which it has full page images -- or at least full text
plus illustrations.?

--
David Goodman
Biology Librarian
and Co-chair, Electronic Journals Task force
Princeton University Library
Princeton, NJ 08544-0001
phone: 609-258-3235
fax: 609-258-2627
e-mail: dgoodman@princeton.edu