Paula Younger schrieb:
> We currently only have one Wiley title as such and have been advised that our annual spend means we could not have an Enhanced Access Licence for that title. Therefore we are unable to access any usage statistics for that online Wiley title. We do not have a print subscription to that title.
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> I am still not clear what is actually happening to the Blackwell data for July and August 2008 - looking at the sentence "Our intention is that usage data for the period January 2008 to June 2008 for Blackwell titles will be available from Wiley InterScience in September 2008" this would seem to imply that there won't be any data for July and August. For the first week in July our access has been curtailed in any case.
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> I have been advised that a service such as Ebsco EJS may enable us to access some statistics, but in our situation at this library, with multiple networks and user access possibilities, that really doesn't help as Ebsco EJS is not a suitable solution. I really think our only viable option may be to cancel subscriptions and resort to interlibrary loans.
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> Paula.
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> Paula Younger
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Exeter Health Library
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I find this astonishing, if no misunderstanding is involved here. I knew
that
Wiley reserved COUNTER statistics to EAL customers but never had
suspected a site would be denied an EAL license (which anyway is more
expensive) because it does not meet a certain budget threshold (to set a
threshold for participation in a consortium with cross access and/or
additional access is an entirely different matter).
This case amply shows how misguided the present Wiley policy is. Any
publisher who sells subscriptions with electronic access (and even more so,
if he also sells them e-only) should be required to deliver COUNTER usage
statistics for them regardless of the amount of money the institution is
spending on its titles. If it sets arbitrary thresholds it cannot claim
to be
COUNTER compliant.
It would have been better and less confusing, if Wiley had used the current
migration to end this unfair treatment of customers with small annual
spends
on Wiley titles, and not postpone the change until 2009.
Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library and Consortium BW
lis-e-resources is the new name for lis-e-journals from the 1st July 2008
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