I agree with Diane.  One of the reference librarians started to weed a few bound journal runs because those titles were in one of the EBSCOHost databases, and I told her NO.  JSTOR is a different story, but I am NOT letting journals that we paid a LOT of money for over any number of decades out of any door just because the title is in an aggregator database.  That is not a stable environment -- especially in light of publishers like Taylor & Francis pulling their journal content recently.

That content is virtually irreplaceable on our budget.

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From: "Diane Westerfield" <Diane.Westerfield@COLORADOCOLLEGE.EDU>
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:48:19 AM
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] database access change

I would be very careful with print journal titles where your only online access is in one or more aggregator DBs. I would be loathe to cancel the print subscription and/or withdraw bound volumes. I'm nervous about putting bound volumes into storage if the titles are only covered in an aggregator. You would want to make absolutely sure that nobody is relying on that title anymore before jettisoning the print.

We currently have two big aggregators. It's too easy for publishers to yank stuff out of one otherwise reliable aggregator. The other aggregator is comparatively chaotic and somewhat hard to use, in addition to the vagaries of publisher whims.

Take a look at aggregator title update lists, if they are available -- some publishers are putting us and the aggregator in a bad position by pulling out their content completely, or instituting long embargo periods on new content. Large publishers are buying and transferring journals in a feeding frenzy, so what you had today in an aggregator, may be gone tomorrow or next year.

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Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian
Tutt Library, Colorado College
diane.westerfield@coloradocollege.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 7:34 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
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
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Lynchburg, VA 24503

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