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Electronic Collections Online : Options : Per-article-use purchasing

Per-article-use purchase

Per-article-use purchasing gives your users access to abstracts and full text for articles in journals to which your library does not subscribe. It's an easy way to complement your existing subscriptions, and you can use the purchase statistics to guide your future electronic journal acquisitions.

What users see for per-article-use purchase

Users see little or no difference between accessing full text available through per-article-use purchase and accessing other full text available through FirstSearch. In FirstSearch, they click the same full-text icon and link used to access other full text. For direct article access, they click links that you supply on your library's Web pages just as they do for other full text available through FirstSearch.

Benefits of per-article-use purchase

Per-article-use purchase lets you provide access to the full text of journal articles included in FirstSearch but not covered by your FirstSearch subscription or by other full-text billing methods.

Other benefits

  • Access to journals that complement your existing subscriptions, including journals not used enough to warrant the expense of annual subscriptions
  • Method of introducing access to electronic journals if your library has no subscriptions
  • Statistics to support future subscription decisions
  • More "just-in-time" information to satisfy the needs of your library users
  • More online information to serve growing numbers of remote-access users
  • Increased access to full text from FirstSearch databases that link to the full text of journal articles in other databases
  • Another document delivery option for interlibrary loan departments using online services to fill document requests in a timely manner

Participating publishers

A number of publishers have made their journals available through per-article-use purchase.