It has been many years since I got a notice like that from a database vendor.  The vendor had actually gone ahead and cut off access at a time when a large chemistry class was trying to do an assignment that involved heavy use of historical chemistry journals.  I learned that if you know in advance that a class is going to put heavy use on a specific resource, you can give the vendor a heads-up to avoid trouble, and, in some case, they will even allow a very short-term unlimited access for resources with limited simultaneous users.  We have used that on occasion – but it does require that the faculty let you know in advance when their students are going to be hitting a resource really hard, and it has to be a very limited time period, like 24 hours.

Karin

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Karin Wikoff

Electronic and Technical Services Librarian

Ithaca College Library

953 Danby Rd

Ithaca, NY 14850

Phone: 1-607-274-1364

Fax: 1-607-274-1539

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