We have begun cancelling print periodicals only when we had a
signed license agreement guaranteeing perpetual access in the event of a
cancellation. We have the additional backup of Portico here; we subscribe
to Portico and most of our “safe” journal vendors have most of the
canceled journals in Portico now.
I wouldn’t consider anything on the Highwire platform safe to
cancel unless you got a signed license from a publisher guaranteeing perpetual
access to a particular title. Same thing with other platforms like
Caliber, Metapress, etc. In the case of journal aggregators like
EBSCOHOST, I wouldn’t cancel any print title there if it weren’t
held in a safe place elsewhere. It’s just too easy for journals to
appear and disappear, either chunks or whole runs. They’re not all
in JSTOR, and even the ones that are will probably have a moving wall blocking
current content.
--
Diane Westerfield
Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian
Colorado College, Tutt Library
(719) 389-6661
(719) 389-6082 (fax)
diane.westerfield@coloradocollege.edu
From: SERIALST: Serials
in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien,
Pamela
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 1:37 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Back Access to Journals
Hi
Diane,
This
has been a problem with us also in the past year or so. And I agree it is
primarily Highwire-accessed journals that provided so-called “free
access”.
Then,
when the publisher decides to charge for Archival or Legacy Backfiles, some of
those years we used to get for free become part of the backfile and we no
longer have access.
This
was really an issue for us, because we just had a huge space reduction and had
to weed most of our bound print collection. I had extensively researched
access start dates, reliability of access, whether it was from consortiums or
subscriptions, etc…and I still got burned by a few titles that suddenly
removed years from our access that fell into that newly created “archive
period”.
Basically,
I have learned that any access dates can be changed at any time…unless
you have made the one-time purchase of an archive, with a specific start and
end date.
Pam
Pamela
L. O'Brien
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