[Eril-l] Question re: Bloomberg Law / BNA resources

[Beth Jacoby]

This is the kind of decision content providers make when they think they
have a captive audience. Your best option is to cancel it. Loss of revenue
is usually the only thing that makes these guys sit up and listen, and
perhaps re-consider.

Beth

Beth Jacoby
Content Development Librarian
Schmidt Library
Library & Technology Services
York College of Pennsylvania
441 Country Club Rd.
York, PA  17403-3651




On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 5:11 PM Andree Rathemacher <andree at uri.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> University of Rhode Island for years has had access to Bloomberg BNA's
> Labor and Employment Law Resource Center. First we had 10 named users, then
> we got IP authenticated access, which was much better.
>
> Now, upon subscription expiration, all former BNA products are apparently
> being rolled onto the Bloomberg Law platform. For the same price as
> campus-wide IP-authenticated access with unlimited users, we're now being
> told we can have ONLY ONE SPECIFIC COMPUTER IN THE LIBRARY access the
> "Labor and Employment Law Resource Center Core Plus" on Bloomberg Law.
>
> Does anyone else have any experience, commentary, or advice on this?
>
> I'm going to have to cancel if this is the case, but how does one terminal
> even work (especially if it isn't IP-authenticated)? Our rep tells us that
> another Rhode Island school and a law library and Boston have agreed to
> this.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Andrée
>
> --
> Andrée Rathemacher  |  Professor / Head, Acquisitions
> University Libraries, University of Rhode Island  |  (401) 874-5096  |
> andree at uri.edu
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