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E-Resources Working Group Minutes
August 11, 2008 meeting In attendance: Cindy Clennon, Wendy Shelburne, Sarah Wessel, Laurie Sauer, Linda Carlisle, Chris Sweet, Jeannette Pierce, Sara Thorburn, Gwen Harrison - Review of new and current proposals
Greenwood American Mosiac
-Mostly e-book content
-Some may own print versions
-A number of competing products: Oxford’s African American Studies Center (M-Link
pricing $808-3379).
-Determined there was enough interest to move forward
Greenwod Pop Culture Universe
-No major competing resources
-“Web 2.0ish”
-Possible connection speed issues?
-M-Link has pricing for this database
-Determined that there was enough interest to move forward
Morningstar Research Center
-Some content duplication in other business databases
-Some libraries have paper subscription
-Determined that there was not enough interest to move forward
Springer eBooks
-Wendy: ebook stats at UIUC continue to look good, no usage at ?SIU?
-Download by chapter
-Link from Googlebooks?
-Springer-provided catalog records sufficient?
-Interesting small school pricing structure
-Move forward, but probably wait until fall for all commitments to secure best pricing
Palgrave Dictionary of Ecomomics
-New proposal from a different rep ($863 per library)
-Old pricing was $913-$2556 (one-time purchase)
-New proposal would require 50% participation, would have to extend deadline
-Cindy will find out if new price is for purchase or subscription
-Print discount or requirement for print?
- Continuing proposals
Oxford Scholarship Online
-Cindy provided group with subscription pricing as opposed to one-time purchase proposal review earlier by group.
-Is this consortial pricing or regular pricing?
-How are concurrent users defined?
-Some question as to usability, printing, etc.
-Committee will trial this and go from there
SimplyMap
-Cindy e-mailed committee trial information. Trial just for ERWG.
-Check out the trial, will discuss during next call
Wilson Select
-Cindy obtained CARLI pricing, but as anticipated system pricing was better
PerAbs
-Forthcoming pricing from OCLC and Proquest
- Old Business
E-Resources Wish Lists
-Began reviewing wish lists submitted by committee members
-Noted that there are some areas of overlap between wish lists
-Discussed need for Sci/Tech databases at smaller institutions (Web of Science)
-Discussed Chicago Manual of Style online. This may have wide appeal.
-Will continue discussion of the wish lists during next conference call.
Licensing conference
-Awaiting the curriculum for the conference.
-Will do more promotion later.
Aluka
-Moving forward with this agreement. Cindy will discuss signing the letter with Susan.
Respectfully submitted,
Chris Sweet
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