Re: Sports Illustrated policy Thomas, Susan Elaine 08 Mar 2007 14:28 UTC
I am not sure I understand what you mean by amateurish research. As previously noted it has huge research potential in terms of fashion, fashion design, and definitely pop culture. Other areas of research might be marketing, journalism, photography, art, gender and women's studies, history, psychology, etc. If Time Warner has elected to change their policy where was the notification? I am constantly bombarded with letters and emails explaining changes in terms of subscriptions and do not recall seeing anything either from EBSCO or from Time Warner indicating this change. It seems wrong, definitely very wrong for them to have made this decision. It also seems obvious that this was a decision made purely for profit. Unfortunately for Time Warner, it appears to be a new form of publisher censorship. I think when we subscribed or renewed our subscriptions to this publication it was under the assumption that we would receive all the issues published. Time Warner has noted that they did not send this particular issue to institutions/organizations that use a subscription management service and that this is a new policy for them, but have they provided a reason for the change? I think we need to push them to state explicitly why they did this. It should add fuel to the fire. Susan E. Thomas Head of Collection Development Schurz Library Indiana University South Bend (574) 520-5500 suethoma@iusb.edu -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Ian Woodward Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:05 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Sports Illustrated policy I can imagine amateurish research using the swimsuit issue, somewhere in the same region referred to in the spam that greets me every morning. IW I. Woodward Serials Office Colgate University Libraries Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology 13 Oak Drive Hamilton, N.Y. 13346 Ph.: 315-228-7306 Fax: 315-228-7029 -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Kevin M. Randall Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:40 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Sports Illustrated policy The swimsuit issue can have a legitimate research purpose in many libraries. (And no, I am not in the least trying to be funny or sarcastic.) The more this saga goes on, the more clear it does seem that it's a sales ploy by the publisher. Kevin M. Randall Head of Serials Cataloging Northwestern University Library 1970 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-2300 email: kmr@northwestern.edu phone: (847) 491-2939 fax: (847) 491-4345 At 12:53 PM 3/7/2007, Ian Woodward wrote: > >>--I bet that corporate is afraid that if students can look at the >issue in >libraries, they won't buy their own copy. It's all about money. That's > >my cynical side, perhaps.<< > >Were that the case, the publisher would be loathe to honor any >institutional subscriptions. One might also suspect that the purposes >to which the Swimsuit issue is put would render a library subscription a >poor substitute for a personal copy. > >IW > >I. Woodward >Serials Office >Colgate University Libraries >Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology >13 Oak Drive >Hamilton, N.Y. 13346 >Ph.: 315-228-7306 >Fax: 315-228-7029