Jenny,

Andree is right in that Ovid is still in the stone age.  For Institutional
electronic access, purchase must be made through Ovid.  Wolters Kluwer
owns both Ovid and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and who knows what else.

Another thing is that if you are keeping a current print subscription, you
must let them know, because then their online price is less.  If you are
on ly having an electronic access subscription, then your price is more ($
X+) and it is more than the Institutional Print Only Subscription $ X).

(stone age because more publishers are considering Print Only or Online
Only as the same price)

There are at least 3 Nursing packages that you might want to look at.
For us, most of the titles are needed and we get to sneak a few others
in our subscriptions.  There is a price advantage there)

With Best Regards,

JOHN Lucas
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Rowland Library
2500 North State St.
Jackson, MS 39216

>>> Andree Rathemacher <andree@URI.EDU> 12/2/2008 12:31 PM >>>
Jenny, I don't think that is how Journals@OVID (Lippincott) defines "1
user."

It is one simultaneous user from within your IP range.

We serve a campus of >13,000 FTE, and we only have 1 user for each
Journals@OVID LWW title. Most of the time, this is sufficient.

OVID is in the stone age with their single simultaneous user restriction,
but that's another issue.

andree

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Jennifer Sippel <
Jennifer.Sippel@minneapolis.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm new to the role of Serials Librarian and am new to this listserv so
> I apologize if this question/issue has been previously discussed. (I did
> check the archives briefly before posting).
>
> I am curious how other Libraries respond to the "single user" pricing
> model, where "single user" is defined as ONE person or individual (as
> opposed to one user at a time).
>
> Our Nursing Program faculty are requesting online access to journals
> such as American Journal of Nursing and Nursing, both published by
> Lippincott. Our small community college library budget can barely
> justify spending over $200 to subscribe to an online journal that comes
> with an institutional site license, and yet this is the cost we are
> expected to pay in order to provide ONE PERSON electronic access to each
> of these journals. These titles are not available full-text in any of
> our subscription databases, so for the time being we will continue to
> direct faculty & students to our print subscription copies and will look
> for alternative titles that have a more reasonable pricing model for
> online access.
>
> I appreciate any and all feedback, on or off list is fine.
>
> cheers,
> jenny:>
>
>
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Andree Rathemacher
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Head, Serials Unit / Electronic Resources Librarian
University Library, University of Rhode Island
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