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So LSU has a license with Elsevier, and LSU's School of Veterinary Medicine had a license with Elsevier. How come LSU acquired two licenses in the first place?
by nomercy400 9y ago
So LSU has a license with Elsevier, and LSU's School of Veterinary Medicine had a license with Elsevier.
How come LSU acquired two licenses in the first place? Was there a merger of LSU School of Veterinary Medicine with LSU? Has LSU SVM always been under LSU? Was the LSU license negotiated after?
- bkanber 9y agoThe article doesn't state this explicitly, but it sounds like SVM and LSU had two independent contracts at first, then LSU's was renewed to be an umbrella contract, then SVM's independent contract expired. I'd even bet that it was planned that way, LSU would have wanted to combine the formerly independent contracts, so they negotiated for full coverage and then allowed SVM's to lapse.
- upvotinglurker 9y agoBased on experience with academic libraries, this is likely, and it's plausible that Elsevier would use the existence of the former contract as an excuse to claim that veterinary students/faculty are somehow not covered under a contract covering all LSU students/faculty.
- picklebutt 9y agoThere's been a bit of a state budget crisis in Louisiana with major cuts to funding of state universities, I'm guessing LSU decided to combine the liscenses to save money.