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We inquired about pricing and this is how *Business of Fashion* responded on 9/30/16: From Tuesday 25.10, when BoF Professional goes live, we are anticipating that BoF Professional for Students will be free of charge for a limited time only. Students will need to to validate their academic email address for access. Further details will be available in the near future. Jen On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Ley, Sandra <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Shannon, Nicole, (et al), > > I also found BoF useful as a free resource, but I can't justify its > purchase when we already subscribe to WWD. > > BoF's website doesn't mention EDU pricing, but I've e-mailed them to > inquire on the issue. If I learn anything of note, I'll post it. > > If you learn of anything new about BoF, please consider sharing it with > the ARLIS/NA Fashion, Textile & Costume Special Interest Group blog: > https://arlisftc.wordpress.com/ (You may contact me or Nicole La Moreaux > at LIM for a username and password which will allow you to post messages, > or you may simply enter your e-mail address on the main page to "follow" > the blog posts via e-mail.) > > Best wishes to you all, > > Sandra > > > > Sandra Ley > Educational Support Faculty Librarian > Pima Community College > 2202 West Anklam Road > Tucson, AZ 85709-0070 > (520) 206-3015 > [log in to unmask] > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nichole DeMichelis <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:36 AM > Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Business of Fashion - moving to BoF Professional? > To: [log in to unmask] > > > Hi Shannon (et al), > > Honestly, I don't think we're going to subscribe. We already pay for > Fashion Snoops, Fashion Monitor and WGSN, and I don't this BoF adds > anything on top of those (although it was great as a free resource). Asking > faculty or students to pay from their own pocket seems unfair. I'm going to > wait until the BoF Student Packages become available-- the site says "BoF > Professional for Students -- Membership at a special discounted price, > based on confirmation of a valid academic email address". Our other fashion > dbs require that students have a valid email address from our institution > to get access, and that model has been working for us (*much* better than > the VPN). Even then, though, we'll likely not get it, as the institutional > price will likely be much higher. I think the choice depends on your > students' focus (being in the UK, we try to pay for resources that focus on > UK & Europe), and the e-resources you already have-- and with the prices of > databases going up every year, we really don't have the budget to get all > the resources we want, unfortunately. > > Good luck! > > Cheers, > Nichole DeMichelis > > Learning Resource Manager > The Fashion Retail Academy > London, UK > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Shannon Robinson < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Hi ARLIS/NA Fashion & Costume folks, >> >> Those of you who follow the Business of Fashion >> <https://www.businessoffashion.com/> know that beginning next week, BoF >> will not longer be free. There will be a BoF Professional >> <https://www.businessoffashion.com/memberships/packages?utm_source=BoF&utm_medium=direct&utm_content=ArticleBanner&utm_campaign=BoFProfessionalPreLaunch> >> membership level for students and professionals. >> >> There doesn't seem to be an option for academic/educational licensing >> because memberships are all tied to individual accounts (or group >> memberships comprised of individual accounts). >> >> I'm curious how other fashion or costume librarians are planning to >> tackle this. Are you leaving faculty to create accounts for unlimited >> access? Or encouraging students to take advantage of the discounted >> pricing? I've inquired with BoF but got sent the content already on the >> website. >> >> Thanks in advance for your thoughts. >> Shannon >> >> Shannon Marie Robinson >> Liaison Librarian, Media Arts & Design, Drexel University >> shannonmarierobinson.com >> Twitter: @artistlibrarian <https://twitter.com/artistlibrarian> >> Tumblr: MA&D Librarian <http://media-arts-design-librarian.tumblr.com/> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about >> joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna >> Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to >> [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: >> http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy >> Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> > > > > -- > Nichole > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining > ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send > administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to > [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: > http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy > Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining > ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send > administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to > [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: > http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy > Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -- JENNIFER YAO WEINRAUB *LIBRARIAN* THE NEW SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES 63 FIFTH AVENUE, 6TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10003 [log in to unmask] T 212.229.8914 x4116 *SMS* 646.480.6309 library.newschool.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~