Comments on: Do you consume reports? http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/07/12/do-you-consume-reports/ We Bring Knowledge to You Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:45:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Arabella Holzapfel http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/07/12/do-you-consume-reports/comment-page-1/#comment-19717 Arabella Holzapfel Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:09:31 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=23646#comment-19717 Thanks so much for the comment, Ryan!

You are absolutely correct about the uniqueness and value of the information in print issues of Consumer Reports. (I will point out that if a patron tries to take an issue of CR out of the front door of the library – perhaps to a store for a shopping trip – the alarm will [or at least should] go off and the folks at the Circ desk will stop them.)

If we could, we would happily provide access for our users to their online content. Indeed, we would have likely done so a number of years ago. However, Consumer Reports does not offer institutional online subscriptions. (Why that might be would be a post in itself.)

This makes it doubly important that we try to keep our print issues available for all.

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PS – I went to the CR site to check, and online access is not quite free with a subscription to the magazine: an individual subscription to Consumer Reports magazine is $29; access to consumerreports.org is an additional $19 for magazine subscribers. Online access by itself (without the magazine) is $26 for an individual.

]]> By: Ryan Kellett '09.5 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/07/12/do-you-consume-reports/comment-page-1/#comment-19701 Ryan Kellett '09.5 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:47:43 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=23646#comment-19701 I think Consumer Reports is a particularly vulnerable target — it contains information that affects decisions mostly at home and in the store. I don’t see too many people wanting to steal the ideas-heavy periodicals like the Atlantic. That’s cause when you’re done reading it, you take the ideas with you. Consumer Reports is clearly tempting for its rankings and statistics that are so specific you need it writing.

Who owns the digital access to Consumer Reports (I believe it’s free online if you subscribe in paper)? Maybe it should transition to being a digital tool for the Midd community?

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