From: Bill Cohen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 08:20:56 -0400

On a personal basis, I avoid all "renew until cancelled" arrangements
like the plague.

They are too much like "renew unless you remember to cancel."

I thought that subscription agencies were more well equipped to handle
these type of arrangements on behalf of libraries for one-by-one
subscriptions.

 Bill

On 10/4/16 4:51 PM, LIBLICENSE wrote:
>
> From: Andrea Imre <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:35 PM
>
> Hello,
>
> My library purchases Oxford Univ Press online journals as individual
> subscriptions and we pay for those via a subscription agent. Each year
> we activate our subscriptions by agreeing to a click-through license,
> or sometimes they are activated by pub as soon as they processed our
> payments.  (the license language is
> https://www.oxfordjournals.org/resource/pdf/instsitelicence.pdf ).
> Note that there is no mention of an automatic renewal nor is there a
> mention of a 30-day cancellation notice in the license.
>
> Last week I received a letter from OUP informing us that from Jan.
> 2017 OUP is moving to an automatic renewal system for online journal
> subscriptions to “save time and guarantee continuous access to your
> chosen titles.”  The process is described as follows:
>
> “In September you will receive an invoice from us for renewal of your
> online subscriptions for 2017.  You must contact us by December 1st
> 2016 to cancel any subscriptions.  Any subscriptions you don’t cancel
> will automatically renew on January 1st 2017.” (emphasis added)
>
> I was perfectly happy with the system where we pay a subscription fee
> for an individual journal subscription and publisher’s receipt of our
> subscription fee is the indication of our intent to renew. The lack of
> a cancellation notice should not be interpreted as intent to renew.
> There are way too many ways this new proposed process can go wrong
> (e.g. account mix ups, missed communications, delays in receiving
> cancellation notices, etc.) resulting in unwanted charges for the
> library.
>
> Have you all seen this notice? The letter I received from OUP was
> dated Sept 2 but I received it on Sept 30 only.
>
> My subscription agent has not received a copy of this notice from OUP.
> Note that we have not received the list of subscriptions in September
> as indicated in the letter either.
>
> Is anyone else as concerned about this proposed process as I am?
>
> Andrea
>
> ********************************
>
> Andrea Imre
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Southern Illinois University Carbondale
> Morris Library - MC6632
> 605 Agriculture Dr
> Carbondale, IL 62901
> phone: 618-453-4339
> fax:  618-453-3452
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]