Depending on the outcome of the jurisline.com v. Lexis
lawsuit, all this may become moot anyway. Contingent
also on the smoke-and-mirrors escalation of dot.com
values: to the extent that the profit is not/will not
be in transaction fees, only the researcher's time
will be at stake.
For the moment, the buffer is the academic who
performs the leisurely bibliographic search at no (or
little) cost and then writes about it for the benefit,
among others, of the professional.
As for the flat-fee professional user: who is harmed?
Is it pedantic to care about costless waste?
Andy Grossman
University College London, SLAIS
--- Mariann Storck <mstorck@stoel.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> After reading Kit Kreilick's comments yesterday
> about Lexis passwords for newly admitted law
> students, I decided I needed to get the opinions of
> others on this list about the research habits of
> on-line users when a flat fee contract is in place.
>
> I have come to the conclusion that flat fee
> contracts promote sloppy, inefficient and lazy
> habits. I have people telling me how they stay
> connected when someone drops in their office to
> chat, talk on the phone while connected and print
> out decisions contained in books just outside their
> office. In spite of my continuing attempts at
> educating on-line users about this, it seems that
> the message from the reps that the service is
> "discounted" or "free" carries more weight.
>
> I am also thinking that we need to develop an
> on-line policy statement and ask the Managing
> Partner Committee to send it out.
>
> Comments? Experiences?
> TIA,
>
>
>
> Mariann Storck
> Manager Stoel Rives Libraries
> 900 SW Fifth Ave.
> Portland, OR 97204
> tel: 503-294-9576
> Fax: 503-220-2480
> email: mstorck@stoel.com
>
>
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