From: Ann Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:32:14 -0500

URL from INFOdocket and text from ARL Announce:

Washington, DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has
released a pre-publication version of an article on “The State of the
Large-Publisher Bundle in 2012,” which will be featured in the
forthcoming Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 282 (Spring 2013).

In this article, authors Karla Strieb and Julia Blixrud report on the
results of a recent survey of journal licenses in ARL member
libraries. The authors conclude that there are “ongoing strains in
libraries’ relationships with publishers and in their ability to
maintain electronic journal bundles in difficult financial times.”
They found that journal collections have become smaller and more
tailored, and that stronger licensing language is needed in the
clauses that are most important to research libraries. The authors
note that licenses need to allow libraries to: make new uses of the
licensed content, share information with peers about licensing terms,
and rest assured that licensed content will be available in the
future.

The final version of this article will be published in the spring, in
the complete issue of RLI 282. RLI is freely available from ARL
Digital Publications.

http://www.infodocket.com/2013/01/23/new-article-the-state-of-large-publisher-bundles-in-2012/