We've never been able to afford the online price of Nature, so we've used ReadCube to provide pay-as-you-go online access, at the cheapest read-on-screen-no-download option, with the patrons then being able to use our ILL service (which double as document delivery from our print collections) to request saveable PDFs of specific articles that our staff scan from our print subscription. The demand for that is so small (we're a small school) that we think it's well within Fair Dealing (Canadian version of Fair Use).

We spent $780 USD in the last 12 months for our level of ReadCube service, and that includes not just Nature but the entire family of ReadCube/Nature journals - 147 titles.

This might not be a feasible solution for a much larger institution, but if you can't even begin to afford subscription costs to all those journals, it might work for you.

Melissa Belvadi

User Experience & Collections Librarian

University of Prince Edward Island

mbelvadi@upei.ca 902-566-0581

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Diane Westerfield <Diane.Westerfield@coloradocollege.edu> wrote:

So, anyone notice that the print version of Nature is going up 14% for 2017? I don’t see any tiered pricing options for the print, meaning our small liberal arts college is paying quite a lot. And of course you must have Nature online, which is a completely separate cost, a considerably higher cost, that tends to increase 7% a year.

The personal subscription to Nature is $200 per year. We have only one known regular user of print Nature, who could just as well read it at home. We have Nature from v.1 1869 to current (with one missing volume in the run) but all our bound periodicals are in remote storage, so what’s the point of collecting more print issues. Something to ponder.

Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian

Tutt Library, Colorado College

diane.westerfield@coloradocollege.edu

(719) 389-6661

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