Judith,

We have subscribed to these journals through Ebsco for a number of years and
the Association has always honored our start date of January .  I don't know
if the association has a different publisher than when we first subscribed,
but that might be the "problem" and it might take a while to educate them.

Sincerely,
Micheline

----- Original Message -----
From: "Koveleskie, Judith" <kovelesk@SETONHILL.EDU>
To: <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:28 PM
Subject: [SERIALST] American Economic Association

> Our library recently subscribed to three journals from the above
> association:  American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature,
> and Journal of Economic Perspectives.  We ordered through EBSCO and
> requested a 1-1-2005 start date.  EBSCO sent the order and payment on
> 10-31-2004.  However, instead of selecting the January date, the
> association's computer is set up to send the next issue after the
> payment is received.  For 2 of the journals this was the December 2004
> issue and for the third it  is January 2005.
>
> When I asked for an adjustment on this the publisher wouldn't budge.  I
> was told that we should delay next year's payment, so that we skip the
> December issues and then our new subscription will start in January.  We
> can then purchase the December issues as backfiles, if they are
> available.  Of course how one could be expected to perfectly time this
> is beyond me, especially because this is a bundled subscription and
> there is that one title that we don't want to skip.
>
> I offered to pay for the 2 December issues that I received, if they
> would put all the subscriptions on a calendar year basis.   Since I
> would be paying for everything that they have sent, I thought this was
> reasonable.  The answer was no.  EBSCO has done everything possible to
> convince them to make the change and the answer was still no.  They
> don't seem to realize that most people want complete volumes and that
> libraries are especially concerned with this issue.
>
> Has anyone else had problems with this association?  I don't think there
> is anything that will happen to change this, but it feels good to get it
> off my chest and warn others who may be ordering in the future.
>
> Judith A. Koveleskie
> Periodicals Librarian
> Seton Hill University
> Reeves Memorial Library
> Greensburg, PA 15601
> 724-838-7828
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