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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