Re: FTE-based pricing

["Sally Morris \(Chief Executive\)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>]

What is people's view on usage-based pricing (or at least a 
component of the pricing model)?  It would seem to be the fairest 
way of reflecting actual use, if that's the issue rather than 
potential use.  Some have argued, however, that it would 
discourage use - though I can't see that use of telephones or 
electric lights is affected this way...

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Email: sally.morris@alpsp.org
Website:  www.alpsp.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefanie Wittenbach" <Stefanie.Wittenbach@utsa.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:46 PM
Subject: RE: FTE-based pricing

> I personally believe that FTE-based pricing is quite harmful to 
> the library community for the following reasons:
>
> Use is not necessarily tied to the institution's FTE. Growing
> campuses are penalized because the price continues to increase,
> but the users of the resource may not be growing in the same way.
>
> If anything, I think database pricing should be a flat rate or
> flat rate plus some factor for high use.
>
> Stefanie
>
> Stefanie Wittenbach
> Assistant Dean, Collections
> John Peace Library
> The University of Texas at San Antonio
> San Antonio, TX  78249-0671
> stefanie.wittenbach@utsa.edu