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Decison Not to Renew Consortial Edition of SerSol 360 Resource Manager. We talked a bit about the E-Resources Working Group's forthcoming recommendation not to renew the consortial option for our RM systems. As they mentioned in a recent email, through testing they discovered it be an inadequate workflow-sharing tool as designed, and in some cases it doesn't even perform as promised. The few functions that are useful do not justify the $20,000 cost to renew the current subscription in February. Joyce added that Jesse and she plan to meet with Serials Solutions reps at ALA to talk about how ProQuest will be folding this functionality into Intota and weigh in on the limitations they see in the current product. It is important to remember, though, that we have already taken a significant step towards increased collaborative work on e-resources by electing the use the same ERM product and version.
The E-Resources Team will be submitting a formal recommendation regarding Serials Solutions Consortial RM soon.