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Hi Lesley, Kent also took up a PsycARTICLES subscription with the APA under the terms of the current deal for PsycINFO subscribers. We too could not wait for another CHEST stab at brokering something, and the 20% discount proved decisive (bringing the final cost close to the proposed CHEST prices). It may be worth noting that when I talked to the APA stall at the Online exhibition, they would make no promises about a further deal to encourage people to resign when the current 3 year deal is up. If enough institutions have joined under this deal, and if they will all be coming up for renewal over the same period in 3 years time, it may be an idea to encourage CHEST's successor to try and establish a favourable renewal option with the APA. Regards, Jason Harper Subject Librarian for Biosciences, Chemistry, KIMHS, Physics, Psychology & Tizard, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NU E-mail: [log in to unmask] Telephone: 01227 827608 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lesley Crawshaw" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 2:34 PM Subject: Re: APA PsychArticles - How Many UK Institutions Went Direct to APA When CHEST Deal "Fell Through"? > Hi, > > Like a number of other UK institutions we at the University of > Hertfordshire were waiting for a successful outcome to negotiations with > CHEST and the American Psychological Association for access to the APA's > PsycArticles. This has been a long running saga, and in the end the deal > didn't materialise in time leaving a number of institutions in the UK > with cancelled subscriptions and presumably other institutions like our > own who continued to maintain the print subscriptions not being sure > which way to move. > > Mieko Yamaguchi informed this list back at the end of October 2002 about > the APA having a special offer until 01/12/02. I thought some of you > might like to know that the APA has recently extended this "special > offer" until 31/03/03, offering a 20% reduction in data fees for > institutions that currently subscribe to PsycINFO > > http://www.apa.org/psycarticles/pricing.html > > I would be grateful if UK institutions which ended up signing a deal > with the APA for it's PsycArticles directly rather than waiting for the > CHEST deal to materialise OR who have decided to continue to wait for a > deal to be negotiated through CHEST could let me know either directly or > through this list. If you've acquired access to PsycArticles through > another deal that would be interesting too! > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > Cheers > Lesley > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant, > Learning and Information Services, > University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > phone: 01707 284662 fax: 01707 284666 > web: http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/subjects/natsci/ejournal/ > list owner: [log in to unmask] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >