Additional Serials Considerations

E-only Journals from E-only Publishers

One of the criteria for our e-only publishers is that we retain post-cancellation access to content for which we paid. As a result, if you cancel a subscription to a journal from one of these publishers, we will retain online access to prior years.

For most of these publishers, we will retain online access back to the year in which we moved e-only.

For the following publishers we will retain online access back a little further – provided we were subscribing to that journal since that time.

Elsevier, 1995

Wiley, 1999

Taylor & Francis, 2005

Springer, 1997

For example, if we initiated a subscription to an Elsevier journal in 2007, as long as we maintain a current subscription we will have online access back to 1995. If we subsequently cancel that subscription, we will retain online access from 2005 through the date of cancellation.

Other publishers allow us online access to earlier years only when we have a current subscription.

Blackwell, 1997

Oxford UP, 1996

Taylor & Francis, 1997

For example, as long as maintain a (e-only) subscription to a given journal from Oxford University Press, we will have online access to that title from 1996 to the present. If we cancel that subscription in this year, beginning in 2009 we'd have online access to that title from 2004 (the year in which we moved e-only with OUP) through 2008 (the last year we paid).

E-only Journals from non-E-only Publishers

In a few cases and on a title by title basis, some selectors have opted for an e-only subscription from publishers who have not met our e-only criteria. Those selectors should consult details available in EBSCONet or will need to read the appropriate documentation on the publisher web site or read the license, if one was required, to learn if post-cancellation access is permitted or is available for some sort of fee, etc. If we had to sign a license in order to subscribe, contact Betty for a copy of the license we signed.

Aggregator Availability and Use

Every attempt has been made to indicate if a title to which we subscribe is also accessible full text via a Gale, ProQuest or EBSCO database. Dates of availability are indicated as is the vendor name and the use.

Availability in aggregators is dependent upon arrangements made directly between the publisher and the database vendor. These arrangements can and do change. Cancellation of a subscription on the basis of aggregator availability should be approached with the understanding that access may change at any time and without warning.

The use figure represents a COUNTER-compliant reporting of full-text article downloads.

Although full text may also be available in other aggregators from other vendors (e.g. Lexis-Nexis, WestLaw Campus Research, Chadwyck-Healey’s LION), these vendors do not provide journal use statistics.

Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley acquired Blackwell Publishing last year. As of 2009, journal content from both of these publishers will be offered on an integrated platform and a single set of license terms will apply to all Wiley-Blackwell subscriptions.

Although much remains to be seen, a few items to bring to your attention:

1. Blackwell has provided a great deal of full text and current content through aggregators whereas Wiley has provided none. Blackwell journal availability through aggregators could very well change in 2009.
2. In addition to standard annual projected price increases for Blackwell journals (of 7-9%) heading into 2009, Wiley may make further adjustments (i.e., increases) in Blackwell subscription prices. As an example, when the American Anthropological Association moved its journals from University of California Press to Wiley, “two of [AAA's] most prominent publications ... have become much more expensive. In 2006-7 the California Press charged $232 to institutions for American Anthropologist. Wiley-Blackwell's price is $432. And while California charged $138 for American Ethnologist, Wiley-Blackwell's price spiked to $338” (Peter Suber, Open Access News, http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/02/more-on-struggle-for-oa-in-anthropology.html).
3. We have an Enhanced Access License with Wiley which currently results in a per title surcharge of 9% above the e-only list price. We should expect that this surcharge will apply to Blackwell titles beginning with 2009, too.

Per Article Availability

More and more journal publishers are selling individual articles to end users. The prices they charge are benchmarks we could use against our own cost-per-use calculations.

Elsevier, $30

Oxford UP, ranges from $25-$28

Springer, $32

Taylor & Francis, $28

Wiley (and probably also Blackwell), $10

ILL has already begun to investigate altering workflows to take advantage of this option. Buying direct from the publisher may be less expensive, more cost-effective, may result in faster turn-around time and is likely to result in higher quality copies.

Taylor & Francis/Informaworld

The online publisher platform for Taylor and Francis journals (which includes Routledge and Laurence Erlbaum and next year will include Haworth) is called Informaworld.

Please note that when the T&F journals moved to this platform last year all of their customers had a great deal of trouble with access after the migration.

If the use data for FY07 is a marked change from previous and subsequent years it may very well be a result of periods of lost access, not due to reduction in interest.

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