Personally, if I had many titles with Faxon, and I had paid Faxon and the publishers had not received payment,
I would in such circumstances look very carefully at the use and cost  of the titles, before paying for them a second time.

Dr. David Goodman
email address: dgoodman@princeton.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Alexis Tibor <alexis.tibor@UAA.ALASKA.EDU>
Date: Friday, January 3, 2003 2:29 pm
Subject: Re: Reliability of Faxon reports?

> We are still looking at the report we got.  For the moment we are
> checking items that say they were issued a check AND it was cashed.
> So far I've called 6 publishers and 5 of them were okay.  I am not
> sure why the one publisher didn't gel and will probably call them
> back to look into it
> furth er because we have four titles through that publisher 3 paid,
> 1 not (according to faxon) and of the 3 paid only 2 reported to be
> by the publis her. sigh.
>
> Anything that has a December pay or order date we were told

 (by
> Faxon) that it has N OT been paid.  We requested a list by publisher
> of our subscriptions.  That way we can cover several titles with
> one call.  We have already recei ved two invoices from publishers
> that had all the items listed
> that we get through them (neither h as been paid).  Unfortunately, I
> think that in the end we will have to make sure we check all of them.
>
> -Alexis Tibor
>
> "Skwor, Jeanette" wrote:
>
> > Someone said awhile back that info on Klibrary on renewals was
> not correct.  My vendor rep said that just applied to certain dates
> and certain publishers, and she sent me a report listing our
> subscriptions that have/have not been paid.  Now I've been told
> locally not to trust the report.
> >
> > Any experiences someone can share?  Contacting publishers is
> getting me snowed in . . .
> >
> > TIA,
> >
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