Re: Faxon/Rowecom/divine Sally Morris 07 Jan 2003 17:18 UTC

Publishers would hate it too!   The whole point of involving an intermediary
is that it cuts out the 'many to many' problem.

Sally

Sally Morris, Secretary-General
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK

Phone:  01903 871686 Fax:  01903 871457 E-mail:  sec-gen@alpsp.org
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Morse" <MorsCa@WWC.EDU>
To: <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: Faxon/Rowecom/divine

> It seems to me that you would have to add staff to process all those
> orders and do claiming, etc.  Your university might not like having to
> cut all those individual checks, either.
> Just a thought.
> Carol Morse
>
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> >>> AmandaMyers@FERRIS.EDU 01/06/03 12:21PM >>>
> Hello,
>
> With the Divine confusion, we are considering not working with a
> jobber
> but instead, ordering titles directly from the publisher.  I'm at a
> state-assisted university serving 9,000 FTE students and 500 faculty.
> We
> were obtaining approximately 600 journal titles from Divine.  I'm
> interested in learning of any library out there with demographics
> comparable to ours that is getting their journals directly from the
> publisher, i.e., without using a subscription jobber; is anyone doing
> or
> considering doing this?
>
> Please feel free to email me directly.
>
> Amanda Myers
> Serials Librarian
> 1010 Campus Drive, FLITE 208
> Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan 49307-2279
> email: myersa@ferris.edu
> phone: (231) 591-3012  fax: (231) 591-3724