Re: FW: exclusive contracts between magazine, news publishers and aggregators Laura Davis 26 Jan 2010 22:48 UTC

Not sure if this is a comprehensive discussion, but here's where I heard
about the details:

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--Laura Davis
   University of Washington
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   ldavis@u.washington.edu

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Wilma Dague wrote:

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> Does anyone  have a good link of a site that epitomizes this conversation? I
> keep getting fragments but have not found a comprehensive treatment.
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> Best regards,
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> Wilma Weant Dague
> Serials  Coordinator
> Benedictine College Library
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> St. Benedict's Abbey Library
> 1020 North 2nd St.
> Atchison, KS 66002
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> From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
> [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Downing Caitlin
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:38 AM
> To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
> Subject: [SERIALST] FW: exclusive contracts between magazine, news
> publishers and aggregators
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> Serialisters:
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> Has this issue been discussed at all on Serialist?  I may have missed it! 
> (That  a deal was made where EBSCO will now be the sole aggregator for many
> high-use titles such as Time and Forbes and Sports Illustrated?  That these
> titles will no longer be available through ProQuest (for example?)
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> Caitlin Downing
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> Library - Periodicals
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> Santa Rosa Jr. College
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> 1501 Mendocino Ave.
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> Santa Rosa, CA   95401
> (707)  527-4543
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> There?s actually a LOT of discussion on the web about this (some of it going
> back to last summer).
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>  Just google
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> EBSCO "exclusive contracts"
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>  if you want to read more. Apparently there?s a longer list of titles than
> Time and Forbes which was just announced at ALA Midwinter. Here?s one I saw
> yesterday on a school library website:
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> ?So EBSCO will now be the SOLE aggregator for such titles as:
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>     * Time
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>     * Time for Kids
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>     * History Today
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>     * People
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>     * People Espanol
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>     * Sports Illustrated
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>     * Sports Illustrated for Kids
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>     * US News & World Report
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>     * Entrepreneur
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>     * Forbes
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>     * Fortune
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>     * Harvard Business Review
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>     * Kiplinger's Personal Finance
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>     * Money
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>     * Discover
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>     * National Review
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>     * New Republic
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>     * Science
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>     * New Scientist ?
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> If all of these are really included, certainly does not bode well.
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> Here is more on the item regarding publications being removed from Gale that
> Kathy sent around earlier this week. There is extensive discussion about
> this issue taking place on the Communications Librarians? listserv. It?s
> indicative of the troubled state of the publishing industry.
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