From: Anna Seiffert <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:25:28 +0000 Hi Jim, Assuming you already have a longstanding relationship with the vendor, I would ask for limited access for a limited amount of time as a courtesy. I’ve had success getting a username and password for one researcher for 60 days to a primary source collection that we couldn’t afford at the time. Best, Anna Anna Seiffert, MLS E-Resources & Collection Assessment Librarian [image: Library Logo] <http://library.mines.edu/> | p. | 303.273.3540 | e. | [log in to unmask] | f. | 303.273.3199 From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 13:55:49 -0700 So imagine there's set of digitized newspapers out there in a database from a commercial vendor, historical newspapers going back a couple of hundred years, not much recent content. Suppose it's going to cost a library $200,000 to acquire that database. Suppose further that the desire to use that database comes from a *very* small base of faculty. (You could also suppose that we bought something expensive a lot like this a couple of years ago for a faculty recruitment, of a faculty member who's left already.) My question for this list is, what ways might there be for a library to facilitate limited use of such a resource without springing for the whole $200K? Even just good examples of enlightened vendors who've figured out a way to enable such usage at a reasonable, cheap, or zero price and who could be made a praiseworthy example of would help. With thanks, Jim O'Donnell Arizona State University