Online subscriptions and pricing
Sharon Landers 29 Sep 2006 14:24 UTC
Hello. I'm with a publisher of various scientific/medical materials and
was hoping that some of you would be willing to share information to
assist us with structuring our online pricing. We would like to start
offering online only subscriptions to institutions, but are at a loss as
to how to price these subscriptions. If any of you would be willing to
share general information and actual prices that you've been quoted from
other publishers, I would greatly appreciate it.
Here's what we're looking for:
-general information
-pricing information and what all that price includes
-access information (do you access by username/password or by IP address?)
-Do you have access to current or past content after your subscription
expires?
-Is there a limit to how many users may log on at any given time?
-Is there a limit to how many IP addresses may be included?
-Are you able to access through a proxy server?
-Are you provided usage statistics? If so, in what form?
-If you have more than one location (such as different campuses), are you
required to purchase multiple subscriptions?
Thanks in advance for any responses. It will be a big help to us. We want
to create a system that will be the most beneficial to subscribers such as
libraries, and while staying competitive, we still want to set this up
within an average library's budgeting situation.
I appreciate your attention and any information you are willing to provide.
Regards,
Sharon Landers