To All Libraries:
Over the weekend, TSLA learned that at ALA Mid-Winter EBSCO announced it had won exclusive rights to many popular magazines. The extent of this loss in content in our Gale collections is not entirely known at this moment, but we have spoken with Gale this morning and they confirmed the loss of the Time publications, such as Time, People, Essence, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Time for Kids, Entertainment Weekly, as well as Forbes magazine. Gale will be forwarding us a complete list of magazines (total of 14 titles) and we will pass this along to you all as soon as we receive it.
Gale said that full-text of these magazines would remain in the Gale collections until December 2010. TSLA will be vigilant in monitoring these magazines in Gale to be sure of their availability through that time.
Starting today, we will be working towards finding a way to provide these magazines through TEL and will be exploring ALL of our options.
We have reason to believe that Gale will lose additional magazines and we are working on verifying what content will be moving to EBSCO exclusively. We will keep all Tennessee libraries informed about this as we investigate this matter further.
We are VERY concerned about this loss in content and want you to know that we will be working hard to resolve this issue expeditiously. We want the content available through TEL to be the best and most relevant it can be and we will do all that we can to ensure that it is.
Thank you,
Sue Maszaros
Special Projects Coordinator
TN State Library and Archives
403 7th Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37243
Phone: 615.532.4627
sue.maszaros@tn.gov
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These magazines are becoming tabloids anyway... they are on their way out. Have you picked up an issue of Time lately? It's like a newsletter. Let's not let these vendors control us by signing fancy agreements that raise our costs in the end.
ReplyDeleteGale has been somewhat misleading in their representation of this. If Gale's bid had been accepted, any other vendor would have had to sublease the material from them. So they were also trying to obtain exclusive rights to who would have the digital versions of these magazines.
ReplyDeleteThere is always print...
ReplyDeleteThis is similar to the situation with Consumer Reports a few years ago. People can always search Time's web site, but their search engine is awful.
ReplyDeleteThere is always microform
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