I could be wrong, but I think that agreements between journals and content providers like EBSCO can change at any time -- whereas if you have an institutional subscription to HBR, your license is good for the period you've signed for.

And I think we are going to see much more "read only". It seems to be a trend. Copyright Clearance Ctr is piloting a resource that  allows choice at the article level and keeps cost very low for read-only access. And JStor has the "Register and Read" option.

JL

Jane Lawless
Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian
Levin Memorial Library
Curry College
1071 Blue Hill Ave
Milton MA 02186
(617) 333-2245 (v)
jlawless@curry.edu

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Lynne Weaver
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 9:34 AM
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Subject: [SERIALST] database access change

According to this morning's e-mail from EBSCO,  "As of August 2013, some changes will be made to Harvard Business Review (HBR) article access for Business Source customers.... As you are likely aware, full-text licensing agreements with publishers are subject to change in all databases.... as of August 1, 2013, all databases containing HBR will experience a change for 500 of the articles.  These articles will become read-only, and will be clearly marked as such.

This is curious.  Why 500 and what 500?  Is this certain years of access or what other criterion?  And "read only" apparently means can't download or print.  Why the odd restriction?

This, of course, raises the larger issue of access changing for anything we think we "have."  I know it's the publisher, not the database provider, determining the change.  If we've based our print cancellations on electronic access, though, it becomes a game of chance.

Lynne Weaver
Serials Coordinator
Lipscomb Library
434 947-8396 Phone      434 947-8134 Fax
lweaver@randolphcollege.edu<mailto:lweaver@randolphcollege.edu>
Randolph College
Founded as Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1891
2500 Rivermont Avenue
Lynchburg, VA 24503

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