From: "Laughtin-Dunker, Kristin" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 15:22:56 +0000

Hi Sharon,

We generally prefer tier-based or FTE-based pricing. Our health science students may be on a different “campus”, but that’s because the best place we could buy to put those growing programs happened to be 15 miles from the rest of our school, which is in an area that doesn’t allow for expansion. However, we’re still one institution with one central library serving patrons from within the same IP range. And since so many students go through our proxy server to access resources from home anyway, we think geographical distribution should be a lesser consideration than the overall number of students when it comes to pricing.

Kristin Laughtin-Dunker, MLIS
Coordinator of Scholarly Communications & Electronic Resources
Leatherby Libraries
Chapman University
http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu

From: Sharon Landers <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 07:59:00 -0500

As a small publisher, we struggle with how to set our prices. We currently use a tier-based pricing model, and we do consider the number of geographical sites. We realize that, for quite a lot of our academic and medical library subscribers, "single site" no longer applies. This discussion has been interesting to us, and we would like to pose a question to the list:

What pricing model would most librarians prefer?

Feel free to email me off-list.

Thank you in advance for your replies. I look forward to reading them.

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Sharon Landers
Director of Circulation
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
PO Box 752870
Memphis TN 38175-2870
Email: [log in to unmask]
www.psychiatrist.com