<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Just to clarify: the article in question is apparently web-only content for them. It has never appeared in a print issue and is - as far as I can tell - not on MasterFile. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>Thanks,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>Robin</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new
york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Don Yarman <yarmando@delawarelibrary.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Robin H. <newsalemfarm@yahoo.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, September 12, 2012 11:12 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OPLINLIST] Consumer Reports online<br> </font> </div> <br>
Robin--<br><br>Consumer Reports is still available in full text via EBSCOhost<br>MasterFile. My library does pay for <a target="_blank" href="http://consumerreports.org/">ConsumerReports.org</a>, but mostly<br>because the interface is more patron friendly and it gets them to the<br>content they're looking for faster.<br><br> Don Yarman, Deputy Director<br> Delaware County District Library<br> <a ymailto="mailto:yarmando@delawarelibrary.org" href="mailto:yarmando@delawarelibrary.org">yarmando@delawarelibrary.org</a><br><br>Currently listening to "Trickster's Point" by William Kent Krueger, and<br>reading "You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home" by Alex Jeffers.<br><br><br>On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Robin H. <<a ymailto="mailto:newsalemfarm@yahoo.com" href="mailto:newsalemfarm@yahoo.com">newsalemfarm@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hello
Oplinites,<br>><br>> Our library has subscribed to the print version of Consumer Reports for many<br>> years. This morning, a patron was looking for the comparison chart for gas<br>> furnaces. I found it on consumerreports.org, but even though we are print<br>> subscribers they wanted an additional $20 to enable web searches.<br>><br>> Have any of you paid this additional fee to access their database? As a<br>> library, were you able to find any sort of free version offered through a<br>> special login? If you do subscribe to the online version, do you use it, or<br>> are most patrons still asking for the printed copies?<br>><br>> Thanks!<br>> Robin<br>> Information & Reference<br>> Piqua Public Library<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OPLINLIST mailing list -- <a ymailto="mailto:OPLINLIST@lists.oplin.org"
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