<div dir="ltr">Thanks to everyone for their replies on and off list.<div><br></div><div>It has been helpful to hear about the experiences of others.</div><div><br></div><div>I greatly appreciate the feedback.</div><div><br></div><div>Jill</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 7:02 AM van Sickle, Jennifer <<a href="mailto:Jennifer.vanSickle@trincoll.edu">Jennifer.vanSickle@trincoll.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><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 style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">We briefly considered tokens, but our ACS usage is so high that it didn’t make sense.  We bought the ACS archives as a one-time purchase, and we have a 3 year
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">We dropped RSC a few years ago when they wanted to raise prices by more than 12% in one year.  The usage was much lower than for ACS, so the faculty were fine
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Jennifer van Sickle<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Trinity College<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ann Erdmann<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 23, 2018 4:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] ACS Journal Packages<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Hi Jill,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">At our library, we are down to the 5 titles, plus tokens model with ACS. I was not aware that they are offering a tokens only package at this point, but if they are that is very
 good news for libraries. A have talked with folks on the ACS program accreditation team and have been assured that you do NOT have to have subscriptions to ACS content in order to have an accredited program. 
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Here are some articles from when SUNY Potsdam walked away from ACS. They went with Royal Society instead, but I have heard that their prices just went way up also.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>>
 on behalf of Jill Emery <<a href="mailto:jill.emery@gmail.com" target="_blank">jill.emery@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 23, 2018 1:46:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] ACS Journal Packages</span> <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Has any one who works at an institution of higher education in the U.S. with an accredited Chemistry program canceled their ACS subscriptions and just gone to a token model for access?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Curious to know if this has worked for anyone?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If not, has anyone regardless of Chemistry program accreditation, used the just the token program with ACS titles & if so, how do you think it works for you?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance for any information provided.<u></u><u></u></p>
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