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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Hello everybody,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">First, I want to apologize for my approximate English.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">I would like to share and hear your comments about the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online business model. We acquired the online version in 2008 at a fairly high price (around US $ 10,000). We never bought the updates
because we found them too expensive (about US $ 1,110 per year) for the number of entries updated (at least before 2015). If we look carefully at the Excel file available on this page (<a href="http://www.sociologyencyclopedia.com/subscriber/uid=1088/?&authstatuscode=202">http://www.sociologyencyclopedia.com/subscriber/uid=1088/?&authstatuscode=202</a>),
we notice that the number of updates is uneven from one year to the other :</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2008 :25<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2009 :14<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2010 :1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 :3<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2012 :11<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2013 :21<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2014 :43<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2015 :383<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2016 :252<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Since 2008, 753 entries have been updated (about 35% of the encyclopedia).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">This year, I have a little more financial resources and I want to buy the updates of 2015 and 2016. Our representative tells us that it is not possible and that we must buy all the updates since 2008 and it is very expensive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Do you own this resource in your library / institution?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Do you find that it is essential or another encyclopedia is equivalent according to you (we also have the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Online)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Did you buy the updates every year?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">What do you think about this model and especially, the frequency of the updates?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Thank you in advance for your always relevant comments.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Catherine Fortier<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Université de Montréal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Bibliothèque des lettres et sciences humaines (BLSH)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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