Regarding the contrast between Gale Cengage and EBSCO Host is
searchablility. EBSCO has a multi-step powerful search interface that
makes it a much better resource than some of its competitors in the
database and full text resource field. If and when Net-Library has this
search capability, it will be a great tool for finding content found
within books. Using the Gale Virtual Reference Libarry as an example, in
their advanced search, I do not see any search history feature that
permits the random combination of prior search steps.



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On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Janine Mills wrote:

> Hi Andy,
> Don't worry about your email...we've ALL been there as far as stray
> emails and questions about vendor costs, so doubt if any of your peers
> will be passing judgment - and your follow-up email was a good laugh as
> was Helga's!
>
> Which brings me to EBSCO, because I too am considering (and I would
> like this email to be confidential) getting rid of our current Gale
> Cengage ejournals database and replacing them with EBSCO. The reason:
> EBSCO bought OCLC's Netlibrary ebooks last year and we have been
> purchasing ebooks for our small collection solely from Netlibrary since
> 2005. Now that they are EBSCOs ebooks, we have the opportunity to mix
> our ebook collection with a new ejournal collection from EBSCO. An
> aggregated search across ebooks AND ejournals is just what our members
> need. They are always confused by the Gale ejournals database being
> separate from our online library catalogue.
>
> I am curious about costs and noticed £1000 mentioned by someone
> purchasing 40 ejournals. That sounds pretty good to me...I currently pay
> a LOT more for 60 ejournals from Gale. Can we talk about pricing at all
> and the EBSCO product? As a solo librarian I can hardly ever get input
> from colleagues on this delicate matter!
>
> If you send me an email, I will call you at the number provided. Hope
> to hear from you soon.
>
> Regards,
> Janine
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>>>> "Richardson Andy (RDE) Colchester Hospital Uni NHS Foundation Tr"
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>>>>
> As you may be aware, my reply to Helga (although I said Olga - mixing
> her name up with one of our regular nursing staff users!) was assumed to
> be direct to Helga and not to the list. Not that I can recall my
> personal comments from the list- but please ignore them...
>
> Apologies to anyone who feels my comments unfair - but they were to be
> taken in context of catching up with a fellow colleague and as I say not
> assumed to be shared on the list.
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> Mind you I didn't swear and I don't think I let the cat out the bag by
> asking colleagues for pricing - you suppliers must be aware that we will
> talk to each other about all aspects of the resources we get. We seldom
> have the full picture when negotiating to suppliers so any information
> we can garner is useful to us.
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> Helga has forgiven me for calling her Olga ... I think...
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> Regards
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