[OPLINLIST] Consumer Reports online

[Robin H.]

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. 

Thanks,
Robin

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Don Yarman <yarmando at delawarelibrary.org>
To: Robin H. <newsalemfarm at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [OPLINLIST] Consumer Reports online
 
Robin--

Consumer Reports is still available in full text via EBSCOhost
MasterFile.  My library does pay for ConsumerReports.org, but mostly
because the interface is more patron friendly and it gets them to the
content they're looking for faster.

        Don Yarman, Deputy Director
        Delaware County District Library
        yarmando at delawarelibrary.org

Currently listening to "Trickster's Point" by William Kent Krueger, and
reading "You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home" by Alex Jeffers.


On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Robin H. <newsalemfarm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello Oplinites,
>
> Our library has subscribed to the print version of Consumer Reports for many
> years. This morning, a patron was looking for the comparison chart for gas
> furnaces. I found it on consumerreports.org, but even though we are print
> subscribers they wanted an additional $20 to enable web searches.
>
> Have any of you paid this additional fee to access their database? As a
> library, were you able to find any sort of free version offered through a
> special login? If you do subscribe to the online version, do you use it, or
> are most patrons still asking for the printed copies?
>
> Thanks!
> Robin
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