More on EBSCO’s response from http://distlib.blogs.com/distlib/:
EBSCO's Response to Gale's Open Letter and Customer
Questions
Posted: 26 Jan 2010 09:30 PM
PST
I received the following information
from EBSCO this morning - a link to 3 PDF documents
addressing some of the brouhaha over their ALA Midwinter announcement of exclusive magazine
content. The URL indicates that may be a temporary
location, so here are direct links to local copies:
1.
EBSCO's Response to Gale's Open
Letter
2.
ICOLC Questions with EBSCOs Answers
3.
ASL Question and EBSCO Answer
The first is a 1-page rebuttal of
Gale's "Open Letter to the Library Community"
posted earlier this week, "where Gale repeatedly references EBSCO and
mischaracterizes our actions and intentions." Second is a 2-page document
responding to questions posed to EBSCO by The International Coalition of Library Consortia
in which you'll find a bigger list of titles in question (including,
shockingly, Teddy Bear
& Friends!). And finally, a brief response to Gladys
Ann Wells, State Librarian of Arizona, who asked If EBSCO is the only vendor
doing exclusive licenses. ("No. In fact, we weren’t the first and we see
them being signed all the time by other vendors, with little or no media
coverage.")
I wish we could easily track the going price of these aggregators
- in response to questions about whether EBSCO will be raising prices to pay
for their new exclusive content, Sam Brooks of EBSCO snipes at Gale, wondering
"Now that they no longer have to pay for many very important publications,
it will be interesting to see if they will be providing substantial discounts
to their existing customers."
From: SERIALST: Serials
in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Wilma
Dague
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:39 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] FW: exclusive contracts between magazine, news
publishers and aggregators
Does anyone have a good link of a site that epitomizes this
conversation? I keep getting fragments but have not found a comprehensive
treatment.
Best
regards,
Wilma
Weant Dague
Serials Coordinator
Benedictine College Library
St.
Benedict's Abbey Library
1020 North 2nd St.
Atchison, KS 66002
(913) 360-7610
wdague@benedictine.edu
From: SERIALST: Serials
in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Downing
Caitlin
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:38 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] FW: exclusive contracts between magazine, news
publishers and aggregators
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
Library - Periodicals
Santa Rosa Jr. College
1501 Mendocino Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(707) 527-4543
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