I did have to verify to Elsevier that MIT had an institutional subscription
to one of their chemistry titles before they would allow a professor to get
his own print copy at the personal rate for 2005.  (We do offer the print
version in the library and we offer the online version to the campus, but
this professor wanted his own personal printed copy).  After I verified,
there was no problem.  I did get the sense that had MIT not purchased a
subscription at the institutional rate the professor would not be allowed
to subscribe at the personal rate.

I just remembered the title: Tetrahedron Letters. If you look at Elsevier's
web page for this title,
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/233/description
you'll see that the price is called "Associated Personal Price."  To me
that means you can only get a personal price if there is a corresponding
institutional price paid.  I don't think they do this on all of their
titles, but I have no idea how many do have this pricing structure.  I've
never been asked to verify our institutional subscription to Elsevier
before, so I'm not sure if it's new or not.

Kim Maxwell

_________________________________________________
Kim Maxwell
Serials Acquisitions Librarian
Associate Head, Acquisitions & Licensing Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Libraries, Room 14E-210
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
phone: 1-617-253-7028
fax:   1-617-253-2464
email: kmaxwell@mit.edu

At 12:28 PM 4/19/2005 -0500, Blake, Julie C. wrote:
>Jennifer,
>
>         Well, I haven't heard of this at all, because I'm not even sure
>what you're saying. By "restricting" do you mean that Elsevier will not
>allow individual faculty to subscribe if the organizational library
>doesn't? That seems like a real way to lose even more customers! Except
>for research institutions, most of us can't afford to support individual
>faculty research, so I can think of lots of instances in which an
>individual would want a subscription that the library doesn't have. Or
>are they simply refusing to allow the issues to be donated to a library?
>That I can more easily understand.
>
>Julie
>
>Julie C. Blake
>Collection Management Coordinator and Asst. Professor
>LR&TS, St. Cloud State University
>320-308-4756
>jcblake@stcloudstate.edu
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
> > [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of van Sickle, Jennifer
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:18 AM
> > To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
> > Subject: [SERIALST] Elsevier 'associated' subscriptions
> >
> > Dear Serialst-ers,
> >
> >
> >
> > Perhaps I missed this, but I was unaware of Elsevier's policy
> > of restricting individual subscriptions unless the
> > corresponding library subscribes too.  This applies to some
> > of their journals, but the customer service rep did not know
> > the criteria for choosing which journals this applies to.
> > Does anyone know if this is a new policy, or is something
> > that was under my radar?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Jennifer
> >
> >
> >
> > Jennifer van Sickle
> >
> > Serials Librarian/Sciences Coordinator
> >
> > Trinity College Library
> >
> > 300 Summit St.
> >
> > Hartford, CT USA 06106
> >
> >
> >
> > phone: 860-297-2250
> >
> > fax: 860-297-2251
> >
> > jennifer.vansickle@trincoll.edu
> >
> >
> >