Project Cuts Course Reader Prices
A joint UCLA Library / ASUCLA Academic Publishing / USAC project is lowering the prices students pay for course readers. In early 2008 the Library began working with ASUCLA to analyze content faculty members use in course readers to identify materials it already owns or licenses, which do not require payment of an additional permissions fee for UCLA student academic use. A pilot assessment project reduced the price of each reader analyzed, by as little as twelve cents to as much as $30.18. As a result, ASUCLA has now made checking journal articles in course readers against Library subscriptions a routine part of its workflow, which is producing ongoing savings for students.
<originally posted to the Managing Your Intellectual Property blog>
