RSA EEBO subscription has been canceled - Renaissance Society of America

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-10-29

Summary:

"The RSA Executive Committee regrets to announce that ProQuest has canceled our subscription to the Early English Books Online database (EEBO). The basis for the cancellation is that our members make such heavy use of the subscription, this is reducing ProQuest's potential revenue from library-based subscriptions. We are the only scholarly society that has a subscription to EEBO, and ProQuest is not willing to add more society-based subscriptions or to continue the RSA subscription. We hoped that our special arrangement, which lasted two years, would open the door to making more such arrangements possible, to serve the needs of students and scholars. But ProQuest has decided for the moment not to include any learned societies as subscribers. Our subscription will end a few days from now, on October 31. We realize this is very late notice, but the RSA staff have been engaged in discussions with ProQuest for some weeks, in the hope of negotiating a renewal. If they change their mind, we will be the first to re-subscribe."

Link:

http://www.rsa.org/news/257604/RSA-EEBO-subscription-has-been-canceled.htm

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.proquest oa.societies oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.prices oa.cancellations

Date tagged:

10/29/2015, 09:07

Date published:

10/29/2015, 05:07