University of Chicago journals - Enterprise License

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Forwarded for Paul Metz.

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Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:41:15 -0500
From: Paul Metz <pmetz@vt.edu>

Cross-posting this, with apologies for duplication:

I'm surprised not to have seen strong expressions of concern from 
the community about the University of Chicago's "enterprise 
model,"

<http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/subs_inst_enterprise.html>,

which provides some excellent features including greater speed, 
supplemental content, and rss feeds but, sadly, introduces the 
necessity to pay extra for more than one simultaneous user for 
journals. I would have expected the community to decry what I 
think is a horrifying precedent to be coming from a university 
press -- imagine a day in which we all have to make 
title-by-title decisions about the number of users for each of 
our electronic journals.

Am I alone in this? Is anything being done or are we all rolling 
over?

Paul Metz, Director of Collection Management
University Libraries / Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001 / Blacksburg, VA / 24062-9001
Ph: (540) 231-5663   FAX: (540) 231-3694   email: pmetz@vt.edu