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petersuber"As <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ProQuest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProQuest</a> exits the print book market, will we see a new era of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/bigdeals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bigdeals</a> for <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ebooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ebooks</a>?" <a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/02/21/as-proquest-exits-the-print-book-market-will-we-see-a-new-era-of-big-deals-for-ebooks/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/02/21/as-proquest-exits-the-print-book-market-will-we-see-a-new-era-of-big-deals-for-ebooks/</a>"Commercial publishers prefer institutions to sign up to a leasing <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/subscription" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#subscription</a> model, as they offer little in the way of perpetual rights. This means that if a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Library</a> decides to cancel, they have no owned content to show for their expenditure."PS: I hope <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libraries</a> steer clear of this atrocious model. It uses their real need for access against them. If they're desperate enough to buy a subscription, they're letting their desperation lead them into a trap.<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a>

petersuber4/ Historical footnote. In 2002 the UK Office of Fair Trading (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OFT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OFT</a>) reviewed complaints about <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BigDeals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigDeals</a> & other anticompetitive practices in academic <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publishing</a>. It found market distortions but decided not to act — because of the recent rise of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a>. "It is too early to assess what will be the impact of this [digital publishing & access] but there is a possibility that it will be a powerful restraint on exploiting positional advantage in the STM journals market." <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20051025123345/www.oft.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/A56C7602-C0BD-428D-BED2-36784363243B/0/oft396.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20051025123345/www.oft.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/A56C7602-C0BD-428D-BED2-36784363243B/0/oft396.pdf</a>

petersuber"<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MIT</a> leaders describe the experience of not renewing its largest journal contract [with <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a>] as overwhelmingly positive." <a href="https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/unbundling-profiles/mit-libraries/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/unbundling-profiles/mit-libraries/</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academia</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BigDeals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigDeals</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Cancellations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cancellations</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ILL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ILL</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScholComm</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Publishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Publishers</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Subscriptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Subscriptions</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Unsub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unsub</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/openscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@openscience</a>

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