ACQNET: Cancellation or continue ...?

From: Eleanor Cook <cookei_at_appstate.edu> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:00:00 -0500 To: acqnet-l_at_listproc.appstate.edu

[Ed. note:  This has been forwarded also to SERIALST for posting]

Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:35:32 -0500
From: Eibias Emrani (Univ. of Tehran) <emraniebs_at_yahoo.com>
Subject:
Cancellation or continue...?

Dear colleagues:
This is the 3rd year that we have had a large decrease in our serials 
budget in University
of Tehran - Iran. We can not continued to maintain all our titles.
We were subscribing to Wiley, Springer-Kluwer, Emerald, Blackwell, World 
Scientific,
and some society publishers (E-only subscription for some their 
journals + full collection access) .
We can continue our Elsevier agreement for 2007, but for others, we must 
decide to
continue or cancel. What did you do, if you had the same experience?

Publishers force us to maintain all their last titles (subscripiton) to 
give us access to
their full collections. Our acquisition committee is interested to 
know: May publishers
agree to cancel a part of their subscriptions and continue our 
electronic access? Were you
forced to maintain all your titles? If it is the ultimate way, we must 
choose some publishers and
cancel others and use interlibrary loan. Is it correct?

Regards,
Ebrahim Emrani
Head Librarian, Faculty of Science.    
& Central Acquisition Office
University of Tehran - Iran

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