From: Harold Bright <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 08:33:13 -0700 Elsevier has begun to embargo textbooks on ClinicalKEy (this may be an ongoing practice, but I just found out about it this summer). Hal Hal Bright, MLS, AHIP AZ Campus Library Branch Manager | Electronic Resources Librarian A.T. Still Memorial Library - A.T. Still U. of the Health Sciences 5850 E. Still Circle Mesa, AZ 85206 (480) 219-6036 http://www.atsu.edu/atsmlib <Http://www.atsu.edu/atsmlib> [log in to unmask] A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs with a commitment to continue its osteopathic heritage and focus on whole person healthcare, scholarship, community health, interprofessional education, diversity, and underserved populations. On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 10:53 AM LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 15:47:52 -0700 > > The concept of an embargo on one or more forms of distribution of > information is increasingly familiar, but this one appears to have a new > twist: a publisher embargoing licensed content to libraries for a period > of time on the hypothesis that library use is cutting into sales. > > ]https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/ > libraries/article/77775-a-dystopian-twist-for-library-e-books.html > > There's no technical reason why such an embargo could not be applied to > library print book sales, but in fact libraries have been outlets for hot > new best selling fiction from date of publication for a long time. The > same hypothesis might apply. The alternate hypothesis, of course, is that > multiplying distribution channels increases demand rather than thinning it > out. > > Jim O'Donnell > Arizona State University >