[Eril-l] FW: ACS Journal Packages

[Jill Emery]

Thanks to everyone for their replies on and off list.

It has been helpful to hear about the experiences of others.

I greatly appreciate the feedback.

Jill



On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 7:02 AM van Sickle, Jennifer <
Jennifer.vanSickle at trincoll.edu> wrote:

> We briefly considered tokens, but our ACS usage is so high that it didn’t
> make sense.  We bought the ACS archives as a one-time purchase, and we have
> a 3 year agreement for current content.   ACS and SciFinder are the only
> resources we have for our very active chemistry department.
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> We dropped RSC a few years ago when they wanted to raise prices by more
> than 12% in one year.  The usage was much lower than for ACS, so the
> faculty were fine with letting it go.
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> --Jennifer
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> Jennifer van Sickle
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> Trinity College
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> Hartford, CT
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> *From:* Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> *On Behalf Of *Ann
> Erdmann
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 23, 2018 4:36 PM
> *To:* eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Eril-l] ACS Journal Packages
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> Hi Jill,
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> At our library, we are down to the 5 titles, plus tokens model with ACS. I
> was not aware that they are offering a tokens only package at this point,
> but if they are that is very good news for libraries. A have talked with
> folks on the ACS program accreditation team and have been assured that you
> do NOT have to have subscriptions to ACS content in order to have an
> accredited program.
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> Here are some articles from when SUNY Potsdam walked away from ACS. They
> went with Royal Society instead, but I have heard that their prices just
> went way up also.
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> http://www.attemptingelegance.com/?p=1765
> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.attemptingelegance.com%2F%3Fp%3D1765&data=01%7C01%7Cjennifer.vansickle%40trincoll.edu%7Cbed382e7e7354b925bde08d639271664%7Ca6cda06a52d94672ae1ff6f9c9f14e37%7C0&sdata=owDbeCWVYkNGmULMtiSRjcA0EVYQ1mb3VNhJ6VO%2B6Lk%3D&reserved=0>
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> http://sparc.arl.org/news/suny-potsdam-takes-tough-stand-against-american-chemical-society-prices
> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsparc.arl.org%2Fnews%2Fsuny-potsdam-takes-tough-stand-against-american-chemical-society-prices&data=01%7C01%7Cjennifer.vansickle%40trincoll.edu%7Cbed382e7e7354b925bde08d639271664%7Ca6cda06a52d94672ae1ff6f9c9f14e37%7C0&sdata=Yic6Ggr4x0iVXrNOQ65%2FTEYQ3%2FPirs3pFM6ugCMXlCE%3D&reserved=0>
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> *Annie Erdmann, MLIS*
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> *(she/ her/ hers)*
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> Head of Electronic Resources and Access Services
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> Cochrane-Woods Library
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> Nebraska Wesleyan University
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> *From:* Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> on behalf of Jill Emery <
> jill.emery at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 23, 2018 1:46:27 PM
> *To:* eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* [Eril-l] ACS Journal Packages
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> Hi All,
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> Has any one who works at an institution of higher education in the U.S.
> with an accredited Chemistry program canceled their ACS subscriptions and
> just gone to a token model for access?
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> Curious to know if this has worked for anyone?
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> If not, has anyone regardless of Chemistry program accreditation, used the
> just the token program with ACS titles & if so, how do you think it works
> for you?
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> Thanks in advance for any information provided.
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>
> -Jill
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