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From: "Blackwell, Lisa" <BlackweL@chi.osu.edu>
Subject: FW: [LIBREF-L] Sage pulling ft from aggs - librarian response?
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:57:49 -0400

This is not good news.

Lisa S. Blackwell, MLS
Assistant Librarian
Children's Hospital Library
700 Children's Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43205
Phone: 614-722-3206
Fax: 614-722-3205
blackwel@chi.osu.edu <mailto:blackwel@chi.osu.edu>

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From:   Belvadi, Melissa [SMTP:silvest@MARYVILLE.EDU]
<mailto:[SMTP:silvest@MARYVILLE.EDU]>
Sent:   Tuesday, July 09, 2002 2:44 PM
To:     LIBREF-L@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU <mailto:LIBREF-L@LISTSERV.KENT.EDU>
Subject:        [LIBREF-L] Sage pulling ft from aggs - librarian response?

Hello, colleagues!

I just saw the announcement from EBSCO that Sage Publications is pulling all
of their journals' full text from all aggregate databases.  They are a major
academic publisher and this will be quite a blow. Across the databases we
subscribe to, it will be about 200 titles lost, others of you may lose far
more.

According to EBSCO, it is not just EBSCO losing this content, but all
aggregate vendors.

Having just read a recent article about how a librarian in NJ saved Michael
Moore's latest book from "pulping" by gettting hundreds of librarians to
contact the publisher (Harper Collins) about it gave me a sense of our power
if we act together to express our concerns. Sage even more than H-C must be
responsive to us - we are their largest customer base.

Therefore I'm asking all of you who will be adversely affected by this to
contact Sage and express your concerns.

You can do this quite easily. Go to their web site,

http://www.sagepub.co.uk/ <http://www.sagepub.co.uk/>    and click on
Services & Support in the left-side navigation bar, then click on Comments,
and fill out the online suggestions/praise/problem form.

Melissa Belvadi
Maryville University Library
13550 Conway Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63141
silvest@maryville.edu <mailto:silvest@maryville.edu>

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