erc st 071128Orbis Cascades Alliance Electronic
Resource Committee Steering Committee Meeting Notes Attendees: Anna Creech;
Diane Grover; Donna Packer; Greg Doyle; Joanna Haney; Laurel Kristick; Lee
Keene; Teresa Hazen 1. Ebsco proposal to handle ACS billing for all participants. This was an unsolicited proposal from Ebsco; Greg forwarded it to the Steering Committee on 11/26/07. Steering Committee agreed that this is not something we will be pursuing. Regarding the ACS deal, Greg announced the invoices will go out next week to the subscription agents or directly from Orbis to the subscribing library. ACS will not be billing anyone directly. 2. FMG Update Greg was notified by FMG today of a misunderstanding of the terms. The FMG deal was for 50% off list, with an additional 20-40% off depending on the number of titles ordered. Greg created a spreadsheet (11 libraries, 280+ titles) and sent it to FMG to see if it was all right. They said it looked fine, and he sent them the final version of the spreadsheet. FMG has now contacted Greg to say that there was a misunderstanding - the 50% was off the 3-year lease price, and the 1-year price already reflected that discount. The original proposal from FMG doesn't refer to the 3-year lease price. FMG has offered to allow a 20% discount on the 1-year stream list price and the additional discount, currently 40%, based on the number of libraries that participate. Greg noted that anyone dropping out will drop the discount % from 40% to 30%. Short deadline is because we hope to have the titles available in January in time for Winter term. 3. Planning for Spring 2008 meeting for Orbis Cascades Alliance Electronic Resource Committee Suggested Topics:
Greg
will send out a survey to members soliciting topics for the meeting 4. Anna Creech farewell
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