I did clarify with the Chronicle that there is no perpetual access with the
license. If you cancel, you lose access to everything on the site.  Not
what we wanted to hear.

Therefore we are maintaining our microfilm subscription.

Susan

Susan Davis
Head, Electronic Periodicals Management Department
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
134 Lockwood Library
Buffalo, NY  14260-2210
(716) 645-2784
(716) 645-5955 fax
unlsdb@buffalo.edu

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--On Friday, August 17, 2007 10:45 AM -0500 Patricia Thompson
<pthompso@SEWANEE.EDU> wrote:

> We just purchased a site license for the Chronicle of Higher Ed, and
> right now on the site they have an archive of past issues since 1995
> available online for subscribers. We have been purchasing microfilm of
> back issues for this title, so the question has arisen as to whether we
> can cancel the microfilm subscription since the back issues will be
> online.
>
> I asked my sales contact whether these issues would "remain" on the site
> so that we could cancel our microfilm, and her response was: "Yes, they
> are available on the site."
>
> So maybe she doesn't know. I checked my license agreement and could find
> no mention of perpetual access to back issues.
>
> I'm trying to learn when I can cancel things and when I can't, and when
> to spend the time to dig further and when to just keep the status quo,
> etc. Do any of you have additional knowledge about this (or advice...?)
>
> Pat Thompson
>
>
> Patricia Thompson
> Assistant University Librarian for Resource Management Services
> Jessie Ball duPont Library
> The University of the South
> Sewanee, TN 37383
> Phone: 931-598-1657
> Email: pthompso@sewanee.edu
>
>