From: Paul Metz <pmetz_at_vt.edu>
Cross-posting this to ICOLC and national colldev list, with apologies for
duplication:
I'm surprised not to have seen strong expressions of concern from the
community about the University of Chicago's "enterprise model,"
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/subs_inst_enterprise.html
which provides some excellent features including greater speed,
supplemental content, and rss feeds but, sadly, introduces the necessity to
pay extra for more than one simultaneous user for journals. I would have
expected the community to decry what I think is a horrifying precedent to
be coming from a university press -- imagine a day in which we all have to
make title-by-title decisions about the number of users for each of our
electronic journals.
Am I alone in this? Is anything being done or are we all rolling over?
Paul Metz, Director of Collection Management
University Libraries / Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001 / Blacksburg, VA / 24062-9001
Ph: (540) 231-5663 FAX: (540) 231-3694 email: pmetz_at_vt.edu
Received on Mon Feb 12 2007 - 15:38:24 EST