I received an email  reply from Tom Ryan, Director of Science, as well
as a telephone call.  Unfortunately, he would not permit posting his
response on the issues.

It would have been very nice to have an an open dialog between publisher
and customers.

Ellen
Ellen Rothbaum, MS, AHIP
Assistant Director
Daniel Carroll Payson Medical Library
North Shore University Hospital
300 Community Drive
Manhasset, NY 11030
Voice:  (516) 562-4324
Fax:  (516) 562-2865
ellenr@nshs.edu

> _____________________________________________
> From: 	Rothbaum, Ellen
> Sent:	Monday, July 07, 2008 11:32 AM
> To:	'MEDLIB-L@list.uvm.edu'; DOCLINE-L mailing address;
> efts@uchc.edu; ill-l@webjunction.org; QD listserv
> Cc:	SLOCKE@EBSCO.COM; 'scienceonline@aaas.org'; Borock, Freddie;
> Eisenberg, Debra; Friedman, Yelena; Governale, Angela; Green, Paula;
> Horowitz, Marlene; Rand, Debra; Rothbaum, Ellen
> Subject:	Science Subscriptions:  Watch Out for Gouging
>
> We just attempted to access two e-publications ahead of print on
> Science, and a message was returned that the prepublications were not
> included in our regular Science system subscription, for which we pay
> $ 6,000 per year.  The Science Express subscription, which is the
> prepublications, we were told, was an additional $ 865 per year.  The
> person at Science blithely told me that other insitutions were paying
> for the Science Express.
>
> The American Association for the Advancement of Science is a
> not-for-profit organization, with their publication on their own web
> site.  When we purchased the license, we were not told that certain
> items were excluded, or that portions of their publication would cost
> extra.  Their business practices make the for profit publishers good.
>
>
> Ellen
>
> Ellen Rothbaum, MS, AHIP
> Assistant Director
> Daniel Carroll Payson Medical Library
> North Shore University Hospital
> 300 Community Drive
> Manhasset, NY 11030
> Voice:  (516) 562-4324
> Fax:  (516) 562-2865
> ellenr@nshs.edu
>

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