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> From: Blair Kauffman <BKAUFFMA@MACC.WISC.EDU>
> Subject: Lexis/Nexis contract cancellation
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> 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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