We had a publisher/organization do something like that lately.  EBRI, the
Employee Benefit Research Institute, recently changed its policy on its
publications.  We subscribe to four of their publications by paying one
price.  Now they've changed things so that you can only get two of the
publications this way.  If you want to get the other two, you need to
become a member of the organization, at a MUCH higher price.  They were
nice about it, though.  They are letting us maintain our current status
as long as we don't let our subscription lapse.  Only new subscriptions
will have the new policy apply.

Elizabeth Josephson
Library technician
Northwestern National Life

On Wed, 5 Oct 1994, Denise H. Rumschlag wrote:

>We recently received notice from the Ecological Society of America that we
>must now order "Ecological Applications" if we want to continue receiving
>another of their publications, "Ecology".  Like most libraries these days,
>we have a very tight budget for journals and we are continually culling our
>journal subscriptions.  We have had to make painful decisions to cut useful
>journals because we can not "keep them all".  Having just completed the latest
>round of journal cuts, I very much resent being forced to purchase an unwanted
>title to get one we do want.
>
>Is this a growing trend with publishers?  What have other libraries done in
>this situation?  Although we would like to keep Ecology we may have no choice
>but to drop the subscription.
>
> Thanks for letting me vent...
> -Denise
>
>
> The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
>                                 -Victor Frankl
>
> Denise Rumschlag                                Science Library
> Rumschlag@Butler.edu                            Butler University
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>