Re: PC Magazine question Pennington, Buddy D. 05 Feb 2009 16:47 UTC
I agree. We cancelled both. These titles are geared for individuals and it is not surprising that the publishers do not want to invest the effort to support IP authentication for academic libraries that are generally paying the same amount as the individual subscribers are. Hopefully the FT database vendors will continue to fulfill this need of providing content from popular magazines when the individual subscriptions are no longer feasible for academic libraries to maintain. Buddy Pennington Serial Acquisitions 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. -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of BLACK, STEVE Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:24 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] PC Magazine question In the cases of both U.S. News & World Report and PC Magazine, it seems to me that the best solution for libraries is to have the content available in the general audience aggregated databases. I hope the database vendors and the publishers can work together to make that happen. My library gets EBSCOhost Academic Search. PC World is in PDF "to present," and indeed the database has content through Feb. 2009. The database lists U.S. News & World Report in HTML text "to present," but the latest content is dated 12/29/2008. I'd love to hear on this forum from a representative of EBSCO (or any of the other vendors) what the scoop is on full-text coverage of U.S. News. Steve Black Reference, Serials, and Instruction Librarian Neil Hellman Library The College of Saint Rose 392 Western Ave. Albany, NY 12203 (518) 458-5494 blacks@strose.edu -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Rose Marie Parsons Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:00 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] PC Magazine question Hello, I don't think publishers of popular magazines like PC Magazine and US News & World Report have given any thought to the fact that their online model does not work for libraries. As an academic library, our only option was to cancel both subscriptions. If publishers do not support IP authentication, we cannot make their journal/mazagine available to our university community. Rose Marie Parsons Boise State University Albertsons Library On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Roman Panchyshyn <rpanchys@kent.edu> wrote: > ------------------------------------------------- > > Folks, > I don't post here often, but I have a question. We were recently informed > that PC Magazine will no longer publish a print edition, and beginning in > Feb. 2009, will be online only. That's fine, but here is my question. They > are going to a distribution model that consists of having a file delivered > to the subscriber's e-mail. > See: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335009,00.asp > Did anyone give any thought how this was going to work for a library > subscription? > We have been receiving back issues through EBSCOhost Academic Search > Complete. I wonder if EBSCO will still continue to provide access. > > Roman S. Panchyshyn, MLIS > Catalog Librarian, Assistant Professor > Libraries & Media Services > Kent State University > tel: 330-672-1699 > e-mail: rpanchys@kent.edu > 08:17:11 -0500 > Received: by LIST.UVM.EDU <http://list.uvm.edu/> (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release > 15.5) with spool id 12881604 > for SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:17:11 -0500 >