Method for Electronically Ordering Journals and Publications by a Consortium

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20120036039A1
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13208056

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A method for handling the entry and audit of new and renewal orders for all formats of content. The method assists with automatically populating library discovery tools, providing pre-financing, and prompt payment, tracking individual package components, providing automatic detailed invoice loads to integrated customer systems and automatically auditing package contents, and bringing efficiencies to the renewal process by ensuring a consortium's renewal order complies with the publisher license commitments. The method ensures compliance with regard to licensing terms, price caps, minimum spend, titles added, titles sold, and titles deleted.

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EBSCO INDUSTRIES INCPOST OFFICE BOX 1943 BIRMINGHAM AL 35201

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Keener, Frank Chelsea, US 2 10
Tucker, Rebecca S D Birmingham, US 1 0

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