Runaway Kanopy costs

[slawlor]

Just curious as to what, if anything, you all are doing about Kanopy costs.   After racking up over $4,000 in invoices since the beginning of the fiscal year, I suppressed all the records in Primo. That appears to have curbed things a bit, but it just seems wrong to have a resource that we're trying to prevent people from using.  

I know that they offer mediated access, but most of what I've read about that sounds like it's a lot of extra work and not user friendly.

I also saw a webinar demo from Proquest on their AVON product recently, and while we'd have to do a content comparison, it looked like it might be a more predictably priced substitute.

Any thoughts?

[ecrane]

We aren't having that problem but it's not as easy to get to those records at GCC. You could try just making a smaller pool of content available?

[jdessino]

Susan:

We haven't been having runaway costs, but they may be starting since we've had fairly large invoices last month and this one. We also have AVON, but I haven't had time to see if the films being used in Kanopy are available in AVON. j