I would get assurance from the publisher that they mean perpetual hosted access. You really don’t want a situation where you cancel your subscription and they give you  a bunch of CDs or tapes that you can’t really use.  And if they are members of Portico, so much the better.

Whatever the case may be, it needs to be in the signed license agreement.

Buddy Pennington

Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian

University of Missouri - Kansas City

800 East 51st Street

Kansas City, MO  64110

Phone: 816-235-1548

Fax: 816-333-5584

Email: penningtonb@umkc.edu

UMKC University Libraries: Discovery. Knowledge. Empowerment.

From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Thompson,Tracey
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:07 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Perpetual Access

We have recently come across a few journal titles in which the website states there is perpetual access to the title, but the terms or agreement remains silent on this issue.  I am reluctant to cancel print with so little assurance.  Have you come across such a situation, and how have you handled it?  If they state on the invoice, the title – perpetual access, would you consider that sufficient?

Thank you yet once again for your collective wisdom.

Tracey Thompson
Acquisitions Librarian/College Asst. Professor
New Mexico State University Library
MSC 3475 PO Box 30006
Las Cruces, NM 88003

Phone: 575-646-8093
Fax: 575-646-7077
Skype: Jenymn
SL: Jenymn Mersand
Email: thomtd@nmsu.edu