<div dir="ltr"><div>Like other institutions, the College of the Holy Cross has also encountered this issue. As mentioned before, aggregators only include print issue (and some online) articles. This has been true since the beginning. However, print publications have become much smaller with considerably less content--even articles. We also have been asked for articles via ILL that are only available in direct online subscriptions.</div><div>Due to a variety of factors, we have done the opposite of others: we have started discrete subscriptions to some online sites (most recently <i>The Financial Times</i>) in order to access articles, graphics, financial data, and some video content. All of these subscriptions are a test. If there is low usa and/or little continued interest from faculty (and no class assignments), we will stop subscribing. And, we have a list of other titles that we could try in lieu of these titles. </div><div>To my mind, online site content is the future of journalism and media. I hope that aggregators can renegotiate contracts to pick up more online content (not just print). Maybe education outreach to our faculty to explain the state of journalism and online content is the next step. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Judith</div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">--</span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Judith Nagata (she/her)<div>Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian</div><div>Dinand Library</div><div>College of the Holy Cross</div><div>Worcester, MA 01610</div><div>p: 508-793-2639</div><div>e: <a href="mailto:jnagata@holycross.edu" target="_blank">jnagata@holycross.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 11:03 AM Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list via Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg5273518813874861764">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We are preparing to subscribe to our first of such web and app-based popular newspapers for the campus due to pressure from other campus entities. It seems that some departments/schools
are basing semester-long projects on access to this content. At the same time, the campus is getting more pressure to decrease the costs of course materials for the students. Thus, a campus-wide subscription managed by the library makes the most sense. Luckily,
for the library, those same campus entities are willing to share the cost with the library.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I’ll also say, the cost per student for this particular major newspaper was much less than the first time we got a quote pre-2020.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Up to this time, the library had resisted supporting this type of subscription because we have so much of the content in our databases, but I’ll echo what Seth said. The multi-media
content, the ads, and the “games” were the reasons given to us as to why the full access subscriptions were needed.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know how comprehensive it is, but our NewsBank subscription includes the text of online-exclusive articles from major newspapers (not magazines like the Atlantic, though). That’s caused some confusion however because the content
tends to be divvied up 3-4 in knowledge bases: there are links/catalog records for the daily newspaper content (i.e. what’s printed for the traditional newsstands), for the online-exclusive content, for the weekend edition content, etc). The division makes
sense from a cataloging perspective, but it can seem convoluted for researchers and general readers. But perhaps they can be compared somehow?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The #1 reason I’ve been asked about subscribing directly to a news provider is access to photos, graphs, and interactive data visualizations. Those are elements we can’t get through an aggregator, and some newspapers have increasingly
used them to enhance or anchor their articles. As the content becomes more visual, the text-only articles at Nexis Uni or NewsBank can seem insufficient to some. But at the same time, the demand for that specific content isn’t so high that the costly subscriptions
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">I did not see any responses to this, so thought I'd throw in my two cents on this topic. We also are receiving "pressure" both from the vendors (most recently Atlantic) and
faculty (trying to get to exclusive web content). ILL staff are also frustrated when they cannot fulfill requests for these articles. For what it's worth, we are saying "no" to starting these subscriptions, particularly where there is large overlap with our
other access for that publication. We communicate our reasons to our faculty, and I tell the vendor reps our reasons as well:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We tell faculty the annual cost of a "web subscription" (thousands of dollars) and that it would gain access to very little content we don't already have</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">In some cases we had previously purchased and own the online archive/backfile, so that being 'thrown in' by the publisher is not a benefit for us.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We often already have access to formally packaged 'issues', including the latest packaged issue, in full-text databases (e.g., EBSCO databases).</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We additionally often have access to much of the content through Nexis Uni.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">I realize that these news publications are struggling, and they do good work, but our library cannot pay repeatedly for large amounts of overlapping content on different platforms. And the quotes
we are getting for web access at around $5,000/year for EACH of these newspapers/news magazine site licenses is not something we can afford.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Maybe if enough libraries say "no" and tell the vendor reps why, they will figure out some alternatives that might be mutually beneficial - e.g., a much lower subscription rate if library also
has large content overlap through other means (owned or subscribed), or we might be willing to pay a reasonable amount for individual purchase of "exclusive" online articles to supply through ILL to our patrons. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Best, Theresa</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Does anyone know how to ascertain how much content from popular source magazines and news is not getting pushed to aggregators? For example, we have felt pressure to purchase site licenses to newspapers and popular
source magazines like <i>The Atlantic</i> because there is a lot of "online exclusive" content that is not being pushed to aggregated databases that support content from that publisher. I'm just curious to know if there is a way to determine how much content
is now considered "online exclusive" and not covered by our aggregator subscriptions. I'd also be interested to hear about any of your anecdotal experiences with this as well!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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