This is why we only withdraw print that we have perpetual access for, and hopefully is in Portico. Most of our perpetual access titles are in Portico, or are slated to be ingested there, and we’re a member of Portico.  In general you don’t want to withdraw any print that’s just in an aggregator, or platforms like Ingenta and EJS which are almost like mirror sites for publisher content.

For titles in commercial publisher packages/platforms like Wiley, Sage, and Taylor & Francis, we feel comfortable cancelling ongoing print.  But we realize we don’t have access to backfiles in most cases, and thus don’t withdraw the print versions any further than whatever unbound issues are hanging out in the current periodical section.  The exceptions to withdrawing large runs of volumes are, of course, when you’re lucky enough to have the backfiles in JSTOR, or you can afford to buy those backfiles from the publisher.

** caveat – we don’t withdraw/cancel print for art titles where the images may be blocked in online versions because of copyright issues, and where it’s important to have the printed image available for study.

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Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian

Colorado College, Tutt Library

diane.westerfield@coloradocollege.edu

(719) 389-6661

(719) 389-6082 (fax)

From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Susan J Wishnetsky
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 12:31 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Wiley

From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Pamela Contakos
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 11:53 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Wiley

I receive TESOL Quarterly online and it is a very important title for our programs. Recently it switched from Ingenta to Wiley. After quite a bit of wrangling with Wiley to set up the online access to it I discovered that I was missing 13 years of coverage that I had previously had with Ingenta. After a long wait for a reply from them, this is what I heard today:

“I have checked and can confirm that online access to this journal is available only at Wiley Online Library.

All subscribers with online access to any journal are entitled to the following benefits:

 -  Archival access to content dating back 5 years during the subscription year 2011 (i.e. access to content from 2007 to 2011 during the subscription year 2011)
 -  Perpetual access to the paid-for year (i.e. maintain access to 2011 content if subscription ceases in 2012)

Your online access content is only available as far back as 2007.  

The access to back volumes now have to be purchased  They are no longer available free of charge as was with the previous publisher and Ingenta.”

Has anyone else encountered this with Wiley? Are you paying for the back issues?

Not with Wiley, but I’ve been having a similar discussion with another

provider that took over Ingenta-hosted titles.

My argument is: Suppose my library, on the expectation of continued

access to the content we had with Ingenta, had withdrawn our print

volumes for the covered years?

You may answer, well, you shouldn’t have done that!  You lose! 

To which I reply, I guess we should have considered the possibility that

our titles would be taken over by some bad guy provider … which is kind

of what you are, if you do this.  If our access to the specified content was

already paid for, you are making us pay twice for the same content.

Since you agreed to take over these titles, you have a responsibility to

the subscribers, do you not?

By the way, this other provider has agreed to provide access to the years

for which we can provide proof of payment.  That agreement is not all we

hoped for, since we actually cannot provide proof of payment for all the

years we feel we are entitled to … but it’s a compromise, at least.  SW

Susan Wishnetsky

Collection Management Librarian

Galter Health Sciences Library

Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

303 East Chicago Avenue

Chicago, Illinois  60611

Phone: 312-503-9351  | FAX 312-503-2678

E-mail: pasiphae@northwestern.edu

Pamela Contakos

Director of Libraries and Academic Resources

SIT Study Abroad/SIT Graduate Institute, programs of World Learning

1 Kipling Road, PO Box 676, Brattleboro, VT 05302-0676

Phone:+1 802 258-3356 | email: Pamela.Contakos@sit.edu

Skype: pamela.contakos