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

[Theresa Borchert]

We had to drop from full access to a few titles and the token option a few years ago. I identified our ‘owned’ titles in WorldCat KB so when finding ACS titles in WorldCat Discovery patrons will only get full-text links to ACS titles we have access to. I also talk with our Chemistry faculty and in classes about this problem. However, this does not help token access for direct access at ACS website and SciFinder Scholar. Google Scholar is a bit better since our on-campus computers are set with our College settings in Google Scholar.

The ACS costs are prohibitive and unrealistic. Any percentage increase is unsustainable on budgets that have not had increases in years. Just do the math! Our savings a few years ago are now totally eaten away.

The other thing that drives me nuts is that every time a person opens an article from an ACS journal that needs a token for access, counts as one token. This is problematic!!! Students will open another browser, reopen an article multiple times, share a link with a classmate, or if a single article is posted on a course page or used in class, the single article could result in 100s of openings without actually reading the article. Each of ‘usages’ counts as a token.

sigh

Theresa Borchert, Librarian
Concordia College
Moorhead, MN 56562
1-218-299-3235

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


​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<mailto:Leslie.Burke at kzoo.edu>
ph: 269.337.7144
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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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Jackie DeLong
Director of Resource Management
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