<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We don't have this resource, but we had The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, another online Wiley product. We got it on a subscription basis, but cancelled it after 2012 when the use didn't justify the $4700 annual expenditure. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Wiley's pricing model(s) for their online encyclopedias are, in my opinion, grossly out of line with the reality of library budgets. We bought the Encyclopedia of Sociology (Macmillan, 2000) on the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform at a reasonable one-time price many years ago. While it's dated, in a world where our students are using library reference resources less and less, it's hard to justify annual expenditures for content with few updates. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Beth</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Beth Jacoby</div>
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<div>Schmidt Library</div><div>Library & Technology Services</div>
<div>York College of Pennsylvania</div>
<div>441 Country Club Rd.</div>
<div>York, PA 17403-3651</div><div><br></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Fortier Catherine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c.fortier@umontreal.ca" target="_blank">c.fortier@umontreal.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Hello everybody,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">First, I want to apologize for my approximate English.<u></u><u></u></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" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>sociologyencyclopedia.com/<wbr>subscriber/uid=1088/?&<wbr>authstatuscode=202</a>),
we notice that the number of updates is uneven from one year to the other :</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2008 :25<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2009 :14<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2010 :1<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 :3<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2012 :11<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2013 :21<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2014 :43<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2015 :383<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2016 :252<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Since 2008, 753 entries have been updated (about 35% of the encyclopedia).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Do you own this resource in your library / institution?<u></u><u></u></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)?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Did you buy the updates every year?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">What do you think about this model and especially, the frequency of the updates?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Thank you in advance for your always relevant comments.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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