Re: [ALCTS-acqnet] Get It Now questions for acquisitions/ILL work

I would be interested in those presentations as well.

It's something I had been considering here at Lehigh but would want some
"front line" input on.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Kimberly Nolan <NolanKi_at_upstate.edu> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
>      I would be interested in those presentations as well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kim
>
> Kimberly Nolan, MLS
> Information Resources Manager
> Upstate Medical University
> Health Sciences Library
> Syracuse, NY 13210
> 315-464-7113
> nolanki_at_upstate.edu
>
> >>> Steve Oberg <steve.oberg_at_wheaton.edu> 2/26/2016 6:09 PM >>>
> Jacob,
>
> First of all, I have no experience with CCC’s Get It Now service.
> Hopefully others who do, will respond. But they aren’t the only option for
> PPV. It depends on your requirements and the kind of publishers you want to
> work with. For example, have you considered working directly with
> publishers on PPV? Elsevier, Wiley, and Nature are three examples of
> publishers with robust institutional PPV services.
>
> At my institution, we’ve taken this approach and we set things up to be
> unmediated from the very beginning. (One exception is Sage, because they
> can’t support anything but a mediated setup using an institutional credit
> card.) We also have the philosophy that our users shouldn’t have to know
> how access to an article is paid for, so we try to make the unmediated
> access as frictionless as possible. Anecdotally, we’ve heard that our
> cost-per-article average is lower than Get It Now, and we’ve been doing
> this for about five years.
>
> I can point you to 2-3 presentations for more info. if you are interested.
>
> Steve
>
> Steve Oberg <http://www.wheaton.edu/Academics/Faculty/O/Steve-Oberg>
> Assistant Professor of Library Science
> Electronic Resources and Serials
> Wheaton College (IL)
> +1 (630) 752-5852
>
> NASIG Executive Board Member-At-Large
> [image: NASIG - http://www.nasig.org]
>
> From: <acqnet-request_at_lists.ala.org> on behalf of "Nunnally, Jacob" <
> jin2107_at_tc.columbia.edu>
> Reply-To: "acqnet_at_lists.ala.org" <acqnet_at_lists.ala.org>
> Date: Friday, February 26, 2016 at 3:42 PM
> To: "acqnet_at_lists.ala.org" <acqnet_at_lists.ala.org>
> Subject: [ALCTS-acqnet] Get It Now questions for acquisitions/ILL work
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been digging into Get It Now for a while now and one thing I've
> noticed is that the information on their website is vague, general. Even
> the case studies are general, which I find a little strange.
>
> Anyway, could anyone who has setup Get It Now provide me with any kind of
> technical details - do this, don't do that kind of stuff?
>
> I've been going around and around with their customer support, it seems
> like we're talking in circles:
>
> 1. What is the Pay Per Use licensing? Is this an actual signed license or
> a click-through?
>
> 2. What is meant by an Annual License? Is this something that we sign
> every year like other things we subscribe to? In what sense is it annual?
> Why isn't it just called "License"? I was told we don't pay an annual fee,
> then I was told we do pay an annual fee. Or do we sign the license once and
> it's good forever? This seem so simple but again it's talking in circles
> and vague information.
>
> 3. We're looking at mediated service to get things started, and based on
> how that goes we would consider going to unmediated. Any advice on this?
>
> 4. Any insight into pricing as opposed to regular subscriptions via
> journals and databases?
>
> Thanks everyone, have a lovely weekend.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jacob
>
> --
> *Jacob Nunnally, MA, MLS*
> Acquisitions and Materials Librarian
> Columbia University
> Teachers College Library
> 525 W. 120th St.
> NY, NY 10027
> jin2107_at_tc.columbia.edu
>
>


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