<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi, all.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We currently don't have any "Big Deal" package with Taylor & Francis and have only a tiny number (10) of their journals, and so are putting their JR2 reports under the microscope to see if we can justify a bigger expenditure.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We're seeing absolutely bizarre anomalies and I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this kind of thing with either this publisher or even any of the others, and have any ideas about it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We're a small, 4000 FTE most undergraduate university in Atlantic Canada.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">For calendar 2015, T&F claims we had over 100,000 turnaways across about 2,200 titles.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">And the pattern of those is very suspicious on a journal by journal basis. Almost every journal with significant turnaways has 1/3 or of those in a single month or almost all of it in just two months, sometimes consecutive sometimes not.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">For instance, a journal with very high turnaways (we do NOT have a library science program) is "Serials Review" which shows almost 1,400 turnaways for 2015, of which 993 were recorded in August.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">And this is turnaway data, not use data. Surely if these were human beings, they'd give up after a handful of tries realizing that we don't have that content licensed!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm wondering if this is evidence of hacked accounts, and the vendor doesn't say anything to us because with turnaways, they aren't losing anything. But even the scripted hacks ought to give up long before they rack up almost 1,000 failed attempts.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">What on earth is going on here?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks for any advice, ideas, pointers, etc.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> 902-566-0581</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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