I’ve just received confirmation that, beginning in January,

the formerly free archive of Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery

(American ed.) will now require a one-time purchase.

 

What bothers me is that this archive is considered to include

the years 1889-1999.  Until now, our paid access included the

years 1996 to the present; after this change, it’ll only be 2000

to the present.  So four years we thought we’d already paid

for – 1996, 1997, 1998, & 1999 – are being taken away.

 

It’s happened before, but that doesn’t make it any righter! 

Even if a title changes hands, moving to a different publisher,

doesn’t the new publisher have an obligation to honor the

agreements of the former publisher?  SW

 

Susan Wishnetsky

Galter Health Sciences Library

Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

303 East Chicago Avenue

Chicago, Illinois  60611

Phone: 312-503-9351  | FAX 312-503-2678

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