The commitment to maintain a series accomplishes several purposes. The academic community can count on the availability of a series for future research from a reliable archival source. A standing commitment, however, does not determine the priority of these serial data in competition with all the other sets of data coming to the Archive. There are several tradeoffs at stake here. Both scholars and vendors want to use their data for some period of time prior to releasing it for free use by others.
Resources are too scarce to contemplate that level of service.
The feasibility of endowing archival activities is unclear, but funds dedicated to the updating of one or more serial collections is a straightforward solution to the problem of assigning budgetary priorities to cope with delayed acquisition. Council has also authorized joint purchase of data resources in cooperation with research scholars and member institutions. Equitable arrangements for release of data purchased in this manner to both joint purchasers and the general membership will be negotiated in each instance. Simply copy the URL of this page, and then go to our feedback form to let us know about it.