Low cost roster-based group access to the PEP Archive
As of September 2007 PEP has 4950 users with access to PEP Web, including psychoanalytic institutes and societies or professional groups of psychiatrists and psychologists.
Group access provides low cost, 24-hour, 7 days-a-week access from home, office or temporary location through a conventional browser.
Because little technical effort is required by library or institute staff, the solution is low maintenance. In effect PEP provides a full online psychoanalytic library.
To individuals, PEP Web is now offered on the basis of an initial entry charge of some hundreds of dollars and then an annual subscription fee of $135. [This pricing system is designed to make for equity between CD and Web customers and to protect the income flows PEP needs to carry on developmental work bringing more and more material into the Archive.]
Groups from associations, institutes or societies with an annual membership fee and printed roster (usually numbering 100 or more members) can subscribe to the Archive without an entrance fee and at an annual subscription of $60 per member.
This rate is available only when all those on an Institute or Society roster, who pay dues, are included in the PEP subscription. In effect PEP provides a library service. Any offices or libraries within the institute access without additional fees.
In the case of Institutes or associations where it is unreasonable to expect the large majority of the membership to be interested in psychoanalysis PEP offers an opt-in arrangement. Such groups with over 100 intending users and where this number amounts to an appropriately significant proportion of its membership (no less than 85% in a psychotherapy group but perhaps much less in a generic psychiatry or psychology group, for instance). In such cases there is a small entrance fee and then an annual subscription of $125 per annum - but only for those who maintain a subscription year on year.
In this "opt-in" situation fees will not cover access to on site in offices and libraries belonging to the Institute. (Under certain circumstances the entrance fee which is to cover access to the Freud Standard edition can be built into the annual fee).
There are general conditions applicable to all groups. Modified versions of these offers can be agreed for smaller Institutes or in special circumstances. Institutes interested should contact PEPWEB-SALES@p-e-p.org.