-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: GeoBase Pricing Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:28:46 -0400 From: Weessies, Kathleen <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ We pay "per search" through FirstSearch. From October 2003 through April 2004, we used 1,931 searches, which ended up costing much less than a subscription to the database. Since the database is from Elsevier I assume that some day (maybe sooner it sounds) it will be priced so high I'll have to cancel it. I've done a study of all my journals and where they are indexed. GeoBASE seldom is the only database available; GeoRef is good for the physical side of things, ISI Web of Science, Social Science Abstracts and PAIS for the Social Sciences. But it is nice to have a Geography database and I plan to keep my subscription until its price is "coloring outside the lines". Kathleen Weessies Maps/GIS Librarian Michigan State University 100 Library W308 East Lansing, MI 48824 (517)432-6123 x250 -----Original Message----- From: Johnnie D. Sutherland [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:34 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: GeoBase Pricing]] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: GeoBase Pricing] Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 14:55:13 -0700 From: Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ 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: >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: GeoBase Pricing >Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 12:53:01 -0500 >From: Jenny Marie Johnson <[log in to unmask]> > > >------------------ >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 voice telephone: 805/893-4049 fax: 805/893-8799 email: [log in to unmask]