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]