Serialisters:

Has this issue been discussed at all on Serialist?  I may have missed it!  (That  a deal was made where EBSCO will now be the sole aggregator for many high-use titles such as Time and Forbes and Sports Illustrated?  That these titles will no longer be available through ProQuest (for example?)

Caitlin Downing

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There’s actually a LOT of discussion on the web about this (some of it going back to last summer).

 Just google

EBSCO "exclusive contracts"

 if you want to read more. Apparently there’s a longer list of titles than Time and Forbes which was just announced at ALA Midwinter. Here’s one I saw yesterday on a school library website:

“So EBSCO will now be the SOLE aggregator for such titles as:

    * Time

    * Time for Kids

    * History Today

    * People

    * People Espanol

    * Sports Illustrated

    * Sports Illustrated for Kids

    * US News & World Report

    * Entrepreneur

    * Forbes

    * Fortune

    * Harvard Business Review

    * Kiplinger's Personal Finance

    * Money

    * Discover

    * National Review

    * New Republic

    * Science

    * New Scientist “

If all of these are really included, certainly does not bode well.

KMcG

Here is more on the item regarding publications being removed from Gale that Kathy sent around earlier this week. There is extensive discussion about this issue taking place on the Communications Librarians’ listserv. It’s indicative of the troubled state of the publishing industry.

-NP