I only received two replies to my message. Several others were interested in the results.
There is a pretty good discussion of pricing for West and Lexis in "The Legal Information Buyer's Guide and Reference Manual" by Kendall F. Svengalls
Steven Melamut
Kathrine R. Everett Law Library
University of North Carolina
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WEXIS basic pricing charts.... explain that this is the "street" price, that fixed rate and other contracts will affect the rates (in our case, hopefully downward).
Make sure you have them put down the costs for the various types of "offline transmission", ie, print, download, fax, email, etc., as well as the extra services such as Key Cite, Shepard's, etc.
If you do your own side-by-side comparison, you may want to add the caveat about contracts changing prices. Our users also found it helpful to see a few examples of when Hourly Billing is better/worse than Transactional. We have a separate handout for that, but you could put it on your own sheet.
Christine M. Stouffer, Firm Librarian
Ulmer & Berne LLP
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
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Both of my local WEXIS rep. sent me current 2001 pricing.
Hopefully with this information I can generate a memo that will make it easier for the Associates to decide how to attack a research question.
Margaret J. Ross
McNees Wallace & Nurick
Information Center Manager
100 Pine St.
Harrisburg, PA 17101-1166
717-237-5205
Fax 717-237-5300
mross@mwn.com
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