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Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 06:27:28 +0000

Dear Colleagues,

We’re currently working with a medium sized multi-disciplinary
publisher on an agreement.  It’s a publisher we haven’t had an
agreement with before.

The terms are maintain subscribed titles, and pay a top-up fee for
access to the full collection.  There is a minimum commitment of three
years.  So far, so good.

The issue is that the publisher is unwilling to cap the price of the
subscribed titles, even though we must maintain 100% of the list for
the full three years.  This to me is an unacceptable risk as the
publisher could increase the price of the titles to whatever they
like.  Given the publisher that it is, I’m surprised it’s being
suggested.  Has anyone had experience with this type of model, good or
bad?

Regards,

Tom

Thomas Girke
Senior Manager | Information Resources
Library Services
CSIRO

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