Re: Chicago Journals press release Thomas, Wm. Joseph 16 Apr 2007 12:46 UTC

To Janie Jones and others,

Yes, the "small annual maintenance fee" does look like a problem.

Open request to Chicago Journals: as long as we maintain any
subscription to any title, please do NOT charge us extra to access our
subscribed years to cancelled titles.

And this bothers me, too: "Effective immediately, subscribers and
post-cancellation subscribers may also opt to purchase a digital copy
for local storage and retrieval of any issues to which they subscribed
as an additional archival safeguard."

Do I understand correctly, that this stance indicates Chicago's desire
to have us pay twice for subscribed content, so that we may consider
that content under our ownership?

Thanks all,
Joseph

Wm. Joseph Thomas
Collection Development
Joyner Library
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858
Phone: 252-328-2266
Fax: 252-328-2271
thomasw@ecu.edu