Many of our contracts include wording promising us access to the content we have paid for, if and when we cancel subscriptions.  The wording varies, and some are more specific than others.  Some offer to provide the content for local storage and use, others offer to provide access at their web site to that earlier subscribed content, and some also indicate that there would be a "nominal" charge for such access.

I would like to know if any libraries have had to take advantage of these provisions?  Have you canceled online-only subscriptions and retained and used access to the content for which you paid in previous years?  Any real-life stories about this?

Thanks,
Maggie

Maggie Wineburgh-Freed
Assoc Director, Collection Resources Division
USC Norris Medical Library
2003 Zonal Avenue
Los Angeles, CA  90089-9130
323/442-1973   fax: 323/221-1235
mwfreed@usc.edu