[Eril-l] [External] Re: Online Exclusive Content v. Aggregator Content

Mon Oct 28 08:30:07 PDT 2024

Like other institutions, the College of the Holy Cross has also encountered
this issue. As mentioned before, aggregators only include  print issue (and
some online) articles. This has been true since the beginning. However,
print publications have become much smaller with considerably less
content--even articles. We also have been asked for articles via ILL that
are only available in direct online subscriptions.
Due to a variety of factors, we have done the opposite of others: we have
started discrete subscriptions to some online sites (most recently *The
Financial Times*) in order to access articles, graphics, financial data,
and some video content. All of these subscriptions are a test. If there is
low usa and/or little continued interest from faculty (and no class
assignments), we will stop subscribing. And, we have a list of other titles
that we could try in lieu of these titles.
To my mind, online site content is the future of journalism and media. I
hope that aggregators can renegotiate contracts to pick up more online
content (not just print).  Maybe education outreach to our faculty to
explain the state of journalism and online content is the next step.

Best,

Judith

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Judith Nagata  (she/her)
Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian
Dinand Library
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610
p: 508-793-2639
e: jnagata at holycross.edu

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 11:03 AM Electronic Resources in Libraries
discussion list via Eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org> wrote:

> We are preparing to subscribe to our first of such web and app-based
> popular newspapers for the campus due to pressure from other campus
> entities. It seems that some departments/schools are basing semester-long
> projects on access to this content. At the same time, the campus is getting
> more pressure to decrease the costs of course materials for the students.
> Thus, a campus-wide subscription managed by the library makes the most
> sense. Luckily, for the library, those same campus entities are willing to
> share the cost with the library.
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> I’ll also say, the cost per student for this particular major newspaper
> was much less than the first time we got a quote pre-2020.
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> Up to this time, the library had resisted supporting this type of
> subscription because we have so much of the content in our databases, but
> I’ll echo what Seth said. The multi-media content, the ads, and the “games”
> were the reasons given to us as to why the full access subscriptions were
> needed.
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> All the best,
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> Christina Torbert
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> Head of Continuing Resources and Acquisitions
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> Liaison to departments of Philosophy, Religion, and Gender Studies
>
> J.D. Williams Library
>
> University of Mississippi
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> P.O. Box 1848
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> University, MS 38677
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> *From:* Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> *On Behalf Of *Electronic
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> *Sent:* Monday, October 28, 2024 9:23 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Eril-l] [External] Re: Online Exclusive Content v.
> Aggregator Content
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> I don’t know how comprehensive it is, but our NewsBank subscription
> includes the text of online-exclusive articles from major newspapers (not
> magazines like the Atlantic, though).  That’s caused some confusion however
> because the content tends to be divvied up 3-4 in knowledge bases: there
> are links/catalog records for the daily newspaper content (i.e. what’s
> printed for the traditional newsstands), for the online-exclusive content,
> for the weekend edition content, etc).  The division makes sense from a
> cataloging perspective, but it can seem convoluted for researchers and
> general readers.  But perhaps they can be compared somehow?
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> The #1 reason I’ve been asked about subscribing directly to a news
> provider is access to photos, graphs, and interactive data visualizations.
> Those are elements we can’t get through an aggregator, and some newspapers
> have increasingly used them to enhance or anchor their articles.  As the
> content becomes more visual, the text-only articles at Nexis Uni or
> NewsBank can seem insufficient to some.  But at the same time, the demand
> for that specific content isn’t so high that the costly subscriptions seem
> justified.
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> --Seth
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> Seth W. Sisler (he/him)
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> Head of Acquisitions & Collections Services
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> Ohio University Libraries
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> Athens, OH 45701
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> (740) 593-2694
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> sislers at ohio.edu
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> I did not see any responses to this, so thought I'd throw in my two cents
> on this topic.   We also are receiving "pressure" both from the vendors
> (most recently Atlantic) and faculty (trying to get to exclusive web
> content). ILL staff are also frustrated when they cannot fulfill requests
> for these articles.  For what it's worth, we are saying "no" to starting
> these subscriptions, particularly where there is large overlap with our
> other access for that publication.   We communicate our reasons to our
> faculty, and I tell the vendor reps our reasons as well:
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> We tell faculty the annual cost of a "web subscription" (thousands of
> dollars) and that it would gain access to very little content we don't
> already have
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> In some cases we had previously purchased and own the online
> archive/backfile, so that being 'thrown in' by the publisher is not a
> benefit for us.
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> We often already have access to formally packaged 'issues', including the
> latest packaged issue, in full-text databases (e.g., EBSCO databases).
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> We additionally often have access to much of the content through Nexis Uni.
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> I realize that these news publications are struggling, and they do good
> work, but our library cannot pay repeatedly for large amounts of
> overlapping content on different platforms.  And the quotes we are getting
> for web access at around $5,000/year for EACH of these newspapers/news
> magazine site licenses is not something we can afford.
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> Maybe if enough libraries say "no" and tell the vendor reps why, they will
> figure out some alternatives that might be mutually beneficial - e.g., a
> much lower subscription rate if library also has large content overlap
> through other means (owned or subscribed), or we might be willing to pay a
> reasonable amount for individual purchase of "exclusive" online articles to
> supply through ILL to our patrons.
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> Best, Theresa
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> Theresa Arndt
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> Dickinson College Library
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> arndtt at dickinson.edu
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> Hi everyone,
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> Does anyone know how to ascertain how much content from popular source
> magazines and news is not getting pushed to aggregators? For example, we
> have felt pressure to purchase site licenses to newspapers and popular
> source magazines like *The Atlantic* because there is a lot of "online
> exclusive" content that is not being pushed to aggregated databases that
> support content from that publisher. I'm just curious to know if there is a
> way to determine how much content is now considered "online exclusive" and
> not covered by our aggregator subscriptions. I'd also be interested to hear
> about any of your anecdotal experiences with this as well!
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> Thanks!
>
> Britt
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> Brittany Mountford
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