[Eril-l] Perpetual Access to Elsevier titles?

[McClung, Sarah]

Hi Laurel,

When we decided not to subscribe to ClinicalKey, Elsevier gave us two options for the ebooks we had purchased perpetual rights to on the MDConsult platform:


·         Host them for us as chapter PDFs on a separate, dedicated site (perpetual.elsevier.com)

·         Send us a CD containing the files (I’m assuming they would also be PDFs on the CD, but I can’t say for sure)

We chose the first option so that we wouldn’t have to host them ourselves. I know this doesn’t exactly answer your question. With other files we’ve had to host locally, we’ve uploaded them to our institutional Box account and limited access to “people in your company” so users are prompted to log in with their university credentials in order to view the file.

I hope this helps!
Sarah

Sarah J. McClung
Collection Development Librarian
University of California, San Francisco
530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143
(415) 502-2184



From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> on behalf of "Crawford, Laurel" <Laurel.Crawford at unt.edu>
Date: Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 2:10 PM
To: eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>
Subject: [Eril-l] Perpetual Access to Elsevier titles?

Hello all,

Have any of you ever cancelled a subscription for Elsevier ebooks and enacted your perpetual access rights?
We’re trying to figure out in which format the ‘electronic copy’ of titles we are permitted to load on a local server will look like.

If you have loaded them locally, and allow users to access them without being on ScienceDirect, how has the functionality worked out?  Any issues?

Thanks for any input you have.

--Laurel

Laurel Sammonds Crawford
Head of Collection Development
University of North Texas Libraries
laurel.crawford at unt.edu<mailto:laurel.crawford at unt.edu>
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