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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dickinson is in the same situation and following the same line of thinking as Trinity. Despite the huge ACS journals increase our cost-per-use remains reasonable relative to other publishers. It’s a very important
resource to our faculty, and they and our students (FTE 2,359) do use it a lot. We are, however, looking at cancelling RSC Gold before our next renewal, as that cost-per-use is way above what we consider reasonable and sustainable, as our the annual increases,
and RSC has been unwilling to negotiate a more reasonable price even with our consortia.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Eril-l <eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>van Sickle, Jennifer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 11, 2018 1:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> eril-l@lists.eril-l.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] FW: ACS and pay-per-view - would you be interested?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thank you, Jackie, for starting this discussion. I’m not happy about annual database price inflation either, but it’s a problem with most vendors across the board for us. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We’re longtime subscribers to the ACS journals and bought the archive in the early 2000s. We’re also an undergraduate college with an FTE under 2,500, but our Chemistry department is very active with a lot of
students. For CY 2017, our cost per use was just under $18, and we’re on track to set an all-time high for downloads in 2018. We looked at the token program, but it didn’t make financial sense for us.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We cancelled our RSC Gold subscription after they wanted to increase the price by > 12% in one year. Usage was a fraction of what we see with ACS, so it was no hardship. Our faculty agreed with the decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Eril-l <</span><a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a><span style="color:black">>
on behalf of Jackie S. DeLong <</span><a href="mailto:jdelong2@washcoll.edu" target="_blank">jdelong2@washcoll.edu</a><span style="color:black">><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 10, 2018 9:45 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> </span><a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><span style="color:black"><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] ACS and pay-per-view - would you be interested?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">
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<span style="color:#212121">I have suggested to American Chemical Society adding a pay-per-view option instead of their subscription packages. I’m told they don’t offer that option. I’m just wondering, how many schools out there would be interested in a Pay-per-view
option of ACS titles? We are a very small school, and the prices for ACS are not sustainable and are very hard to justify outside accreditation requirements. I’m feeling very frustrated actually. Am I the only one??</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Venting, and also want to see how many others feel the same way and what you have done to offset the cost.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Thanks</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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