[WEB4LIB] Per View E-Journal Article Services

[Sloan, Bernie]

You might want to take a look at the Michigan/Elsevier 
"pricing field trial" called PEAK (Pricing Electronic Access to
Knowledge). It's an experiment that's going on now
involving ten university libraries and two corporate
libraries, to determine pricing/licensing/subscription
models libraries might prefer. It's not open to any libraries
other than the trial participants at this point, but they are 
studying three licensing/pricing options for electronic access to 
Elsevier journals:

1. Per article -- Pay by the drink.
2. Traditional subscription -- i.e., subscription by title.
3. Generalized subscription -- sort of a "pay by the six 
    pack" version of #1 above, with free refills.  :-)

You can get more details from the 8/14/98 issue of the
Chronicle of Higher Education (pp. A21-A22), or from the
PEAK website: http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/peak

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning & Budgeting
338 Henry Administration Building
506 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL  61801
Phone: (217) 333-4895  
Fax: (217) 333-6355
Email: bernies at uillinois.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gerry Mckiernan [SMTP:GMCKIERN at gwgate.lib.iastate.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 22, 1998 10:29 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	[WEB4LIB] Per View E-Journal Article Services
> 
>                   _Per View E-Journal Article Services_
> 
>     To my pleasant surprise, I recently learned that the American
> Chemical Society and the American Institute of Physics began offering
> full-text Web individual journal articles for sale over the Web.
> As noted in a summer issue of _The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing_
> "Single articles are available for sale both to subscribers and to the 
> general public, as well as to libraries, universities and other
> institutional customers." [June 1, 1998, v.2., no.10]
> 
>     I am greatly interested in learning about _other_ such services
> that offer *Per View / Pay-As-You-Use / Per Drink * access to
> _e-journal_ articles, preferrably for non-subscribers. [I am not
> interested
> in FAX (or other) non electronic delivery for this access option]
> 
>     I am most interested in those services that can provide **seemless**
> integration with existing E-Journal services provided by Aggregators
> or Abstracting and Indexing Services. 
>   
>     As Always, Any and All Contributions, Queries, Questions, Concerns,
> Critiques, Comments, etc. are most well.
> 
>     Joy!
>      
> Gerry McKiernan
> Theoretical Librarian
> and
> Curator, CyberStacks(sm)
> Iowa State University
> Ames IA 50011
> 
> gerrymck at iastate.edu 
> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/ 
> 
>   	"The Best Way to Predict the Future is To Invent It!"
> 				Alan Kay
>