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Subject: Re: GeoBase Pricing]
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 14:55:13 -0700
From: Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]>


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I refused to have anything more to
do with GeoBase online about 5 years
back, when seller wanted to charge
the UC Libraries $55,000 per year.

Mary

At 05:37 PM 5/28/2004 -0400, Johnnie D. Sutherland wrote:
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>Subject: GeoBase Pricing
>Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 12:53:01 -0500
>From: Jenny Marie Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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>Hi.
>
>I was wondering if anyone has been stuck with a price for GeoBase that
>is nearly double of what you paid last year.
>According to the information that our e-resources acquisitions person
>has sent to me, our cost is going from $6400 to between $12,000 and
>$13,000.  Even though she had included in her e-mail "this is not a
>typo!" I still couldn't believe it!
>
>We haven't yet received the details/reasons behind the increase -- but I
>can't imagine that it is because the database doubled in size!
>
>Has anyone been able to negotiate a better price?  If so, how did you do
>it?!
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jenny Marie Johnson
>Map and Geography Librarian and
>Assoc. Professor of Library Administration
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mary Lynette Larsgaard
Map and Imagery Laboratory
Davidson Library
University of California
Santa Barbara CA 93106-9010
USA
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