Last summer, the publishers of The New York Times introduced an “Academic Site License” to
for educational institutions. The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has negotiated terms for subscription under the academic site license for CRL member libraries, and several CRL libraries have subscribed under those terms. Similar terms are also available to members of NERL and a number of other U.S. consortia affiliated with CRL.
Details on pricing for CRL members are available there as well; non-CRL US and Canadian libraries should contact their own consortium to determine whether they are eligible for the CRL site license.
The academic site license has some real limitations and, as Stephen Maher points out, can be costly for larger universities. CRL is continuing to work with the publisher to improve the terms of the license.
So far as we know, the Wall Street Journal has not yet come up with a comparable pricing scheme for institutions. They are primarily focused instead on individual subscriptions. They have quoted figures to some institutions for a "group program," but costs for this option appear to be quite high.
James Simon
Director of International Resources
Center for Research Libraries
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From: "Maher, Stephen" <
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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:14:49 +0000
Other than licensing these newspapers from 3rd Party Aggregators (LexisNexis, EBSCO, ProQuest, etc.) do any universities license the New York Times or Wall Street Journal direct from the publisher?
Historically I believe it’s been cost-prohibitive to do. Is this still true?
Thank you,
Stephen Maher, MSIS
NYU Health Sciences Library