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From: Denise Troll Covey <
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:24:22 +0000
All,
We recently inquired and received ProQuest’s “Content Delivery & Access Price Sheet” for TDM. The spreadsheet includes pricing and delivery methods for Historical Newspapers, Official Government Documents, History Vault, and Historical Periodicals. The prices vary depending on the delivery method – significantly lower for delivery from the cloud than delivery via hard drive, but most of the material is not available for delivery form the cloud. And the prices are outrageous, especially when you consider that much of the content is out of copyright and TDM is likely fair use of the content that is copyright protected. We suspect that library licensing fees covered ProQuest’s financial investment in scanning/OCRing this material, so why the exorbitant cost to enable TDM?
Has anyone tried to negotiate with ProQuest to arrive at affordable TDM?
Denise
Denise Troll Covey
Scholarly Communications Librarian
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8040-822X