[Eril-l] ACS and pay-per-view - would you be interested?

[Melissa Belvadi]

Just took a look at our last invoice for Web Editions and our 2017 COUNTER
JR1, and we're running about $6 per ft use, so I'd guess they would not be
willing to have a pay per view below that.
Most of us probably can't reveal our actual contract price (nondisclosure
agreements) but I don't think anything prohibits us from sharing our cost
per use, so I'd be interested in how ours compares with others.
We're a small university, under 5,000 FTE, without a graduate level program
in chemistry.

Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581
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On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:22 AM, Leslie Burke <Leslie.Burke at kzoo.edu>
wrote:

> ​They do sort of have a pay-per-view option, by purchasing groups of
> tokens. They are also not cheap. I'd be more interested in notifying our
> patrons which titles are included in our subscriptions and which ones are
> not. We have the Academic Collection w/250 tokens, but there's no way to
> indicate to users which ones we have access to and which will use a token.
>
>
> Leslie D. Burke
> Collection Development & Digital Integration Librarian
> College Library
> Kalamazoo College
> 1200 Academy St.
> Kalamazoo, MI 49006
> Leslie.Burke at kzoo.edu
> ph: 269.337.7144
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> *From:* Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> on behalf of Jackie S.
> DeLong <jdelong2 at washcoll.edu>
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 10, 2018 9:45 AM
> *To:* eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* [Eril-l] ACS and pay-per-view - would you be interested?
>
>
> I have suggested to American Chemical Society adding a pay-per-view option
> instead of their subscription packages.  I’m told they don’t offer that
> option.  I’m just wondering, how many schools out there would be interested
> in a Pay-per-view option of ACS titles?  We are a very small school, and
> the prices for ACS are not sustainable and are very hard to justify outside
> accreditation requirements.  I’m feeling very frustrated actually.  Am I
> the only one??
>
> Venting, and also want to see how many others feel the same way and what
> you have done to offset the cost.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jackie DeLong
>
>
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