Thought many on this list would be interested in this message from another
list, concerning Mead Data's cancellation of a contract with a non-law school
educational institution.
- Blair Kauffman
University of Wisconsin
>From: IN%"COLLDV-L@USCVM.BITNET" "Library Collection Development List"
>To: Multiple recipients of list COLLDV-L <COLLDV-L@USCVM.BITNET>
>Subject: COLLDV-L no. 02
>
>CONTENTS:
>
> 02.2 LEXIS/NEXIS PROBLEMS AT VIRGINIA TECH
>
>_02.2_ LEXIS/NEXIS PROBLEMS AT VIRGINIA TECH
>
>From: <PMETZ@VTVM1.BITNET>
>
>Lexis/Nexis has cancelled Virginia Tech's contract which provided for the
>full range of their services at a steeply discounted educational rate. I
>am not a lawyer, do not know all the particulars of our situation, and do
>not want to get drawn into issues of interpretation. For the benefit of my
>counterparts in other institutions, I would say that we found the service
>invaluable while we had it and will miss it badly. I would advise you to
>make sure that your colleagues understand how jealously Lexis/Nexis prizes
>and guards their product. It appears that Lexis emphasizes their
>availability for the instructional mission of your university, but does not
>very much welcome the use of the product in support of research not having
>an immediate, hand-in-glove relationship to instruction. Use for other
>purposes, e.g. for agencies relating to the business end of the university,
>is of course totally forbidden.
>
>Having discharged my responsibility to warn others, let me ask a few
>questions of colleagues who might be able to help us. Has anyone else been
>cancelled? If so, were you able to negotiate the cessation date, for
>example to the end of current semester? Has anyone been allowed a second
>chance after having sat in the penalty box for six months?
>
>Many thanks. The listserv is invaluable at a time like this (uh oh, Lynn,
>don't cancel us!).
> --Paul Metz, Principal Bibliographer
> Virginia Tech
> (703) 23l-5663
> PMETZ at VTVM1
> PMETZ@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU
>
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