RE: NYTimes: Reed Elsevier's Online Ads

["Blackwell, Lisa" <BlackweL@chi.osu.edu>]

Yes, you are correct. Several of my colleagues myself included, 
have registered. We have also discovered that not everything 
found in that portal is accessible for free. When attempting to 
retrieve some specific articles we were asked for a username and 
password. That was very interesting as it doesn't seem clear how 
to determine what will or will not be available. Another thing, 
it will be very important for us (librarians) to bear in mind 
that this is not just another venue for serving our patrons. 
According to the registration agreement, it is not intended to be 
utilized as an alternate way of procuring research articles for 
our patrons.

Lisa S. Blackwell, MLS

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Funk
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:57 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: NYTimes: Reed Elsevier's Online Ads

Actually, as reported on the medlib-l listserv on Sept. 10, even 
librarians are listed as professionals who can register to use 
this new product. The registered user agreement can be changed at 
any time, but so far there do not appear to be strict sign-up 
requirements.

Mark Funk
Head, Resource Management - Collections
Weill Cornell Medical Library
New York, NY 10065-4805
mefunk@med.cornell.edu


At 12:01 AM -0400 9/13/07, Electronic Content Licensing
Discussion wrote:

<snip)

>However, I think it's a bit premature to jump to the conclusion
>that this might spell the end of library subscription practices.
>Taking a step back to look at the picture, the requirements for
>a physician to participate in this venture are probably going to
>be rather tightly monitored. I would doubt that just any general
>practitioner/researcher could sign on if they were not
>credentialed to be practicing/researching in the specific field
>(although it's certainly possible that the inclusion criteria
>will be much broader than I'm assuming).
<snip>

>Lisa S. Blackwell, MLS