None include embargoes but all mean significant price increases. Macmillan submitted proposals for three new eLending models to select libraries this week. It seems that Macmillan is hoping to make some decisions about how to go forward by the end of the month, but libraries across the continent may have little mind-space for a recalcitrant publisher given the need to respond to COVID-19. Not many libraries have the resources to perform this analysis on an ongoing basis.” “… we’ll be constantly having to monitor/analyze usage, cost, and all the other variables. Several libraries responded to the cost analysis of Macmillan’s new models and wisely flagged costs that the analysis does not overtly include: the time it would require selectors to maintain their collections under such models: Finally, it describes the legislative advocacy efforts it has been pursuing, and states that new digital advocacy efforts will begin later this spring. It also points to the existing models under which we do business with other publishers.

Three more libraries this week: Library or ConsortiumĪlso, ALA published an article today in American Libraries with its position on the new models proposed by Macmillan: ALA does not favorably recommend any of the models. Macmillan announced today that it is dropping the embargo and will restore the terms of sale that were in place as of October 31, 2019.

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