[Publib] RE: Magazines - Digital Editions

[Rose Frase]

Our Collection Development department informed me that they will cancel all our subscriptions to PC magazine. I imagine they will do the same for Christian Science Monitor as well. Our library system is also dropping all print S&P subscriptions for the same reason. At least for S&P, we've got a subscription to their online database.

Rose Frase
Assistant Library Manager
Perry Hall Branch
Baltimore County Public Library (MD)
rfrase at bcpl.net


> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:42:35 -0500
> From: Christopher Baker <cbaker at gwinnettpl.org>
> Subject: [Publib] Magazines - Digital Editions
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> Hello,
> 
> I'm very happy to find this list, for one very specific
> reason mentioned in the message below by Jeanette M. Piquet
> posted earlier in December. I am facing the problem of
> ensuring continued access to PC Magazine for 14 branches
> each of which has an individual subscription; however,
> digital issues can only be accessed with an email address
> and password. As I understand it, each email address can be
> linked to 20 terminals for reading the digital issue. As
> Jeanette notes, the publisher and company don't seem to
> have many answers for libraries. I was wondering what others
> are doing as the first digital edition of PC Magazine drops
> next month. We have online, full-text access through
> EBSCOhost, etc. but I've seen a sample digital edition
> and it is literally the magazine (ads and all) in one
> document. Thanks!
> 
> Hi.  Since Christian Science Monitor and PC Magazine are
> going to stop
> publishing in paper and going only digital, I am wondering
> how other public
> libraries are planning on handling these two publications -
> and others as
> this trend snowballs.  PC Magazine readers we can pretty
> much assume are
> going to be more amenable to accessing it on line - but I
> am expecting some
> objections from Christian Science Monitor readers.  As of
> now we are
> thinking we are thinking we may provide the link to the
> digital version
> directly from our catalogs to make the publications as
> accessible as
> possible.  But at this point we don't know if it will
> be accessible to
> multiple users at one time, if it will require a password,.
> 
> 
> 
> The publishers don't seem to have many answers that can
> help us plan.  Their
> main concern is obviously individual subscribers.  I am
> wondering if others
> in the library world are making plans for this.
> 
> 
> Christopher Baker
> Materials Selection Specialist
> Gwinnett County Public Library
> 1001 Lawrenceville Hwy
> Lawrenceville, GA 30045
> 770-822-5348
> cbaker at gwinnettpl.org