[WEB4LIB] E-resources marketed direct-to-consumer?

[Ian Winship]

Bernie Sloan wrote:

> I am looking for examples of Web-based full text e-resources 
> that are being marketed directly to the "consumer". 

Professional bodies publishing journals have always marketed them to members
at low prices. The same is happening with electronic journals.

For example, in the UK the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital
Library (http://www.acm.org/dl/) 
("20 plus high-tech publications; Up to 15 years of publication archives; 9
years of conference proceedings; 250,000 pages of text") 
is available to members of the British Computer Society for $87/year
(student members only $20/year). (http://www.bcs.org.uk/acm/index.html) 

There are presumably similar arrangements in the US for ACM members.

Similarly IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/), though also intended
for libraries, can offer IEEE members access to full text material as part
of their membership.


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