I don’t see that they
ever offered perpetual access.
Presumably, if you cancelled, you’d lose everything.
But as long as you subscribed, you’d get all the content
they offered.
That’s how it was up to 2010. Once they began posting
a much longer run of archival content, naturally they
would set new terms and pricing for the new content.
But 1996-1999 was
old content, so I argue that their
earlier terms should apply – in which they said “… when
you buy a subscription to JBJS Online, you have access
to all years of the database.”
(http://web.archive.org/web/20101025035314/http://www2.ejbjs.org/subscriptions/institutional-faq.dtl)
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu]
On Behalf Of Rais, Shirley (LLU)
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 2:17 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Archive of J Bone & Joint Surg (Am) no longer free
To all the content on their site or for just those years for which they paid? For for some publishers a current subscription will get you access back to a certain date, but if you cancel, you only get perpetual
access to the actual years for which you paid. In that example, if you enter a subscription in 2010 you might get access back to 1999 with your current subscription, but if you cancel in 2015 you would only get perpetual access to 2010 through 2014. That
is a model I’ve run across.
Shirley Rais, MLS — Chair, Serials & Electronic Resources Dept.
Library Liaison to the School of Public Health
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY | University Libraries
11072 Anderson Street, Loma Linda, California 92350
office (909) 558-4583 ·
fax (909) 558-4919
·
srais@llu.edu
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu]
On Behalf Of Susan J Wishnetsky
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 11:58 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Archive of J Bone & Joint Surg (Am) no longer free
Perhaps not a guarantee that would hold up in court, but
their web site, as late as 2010, assured subscribers that,
even if they cancelled and then reinstated a subscription,
they would have access, as subscribers, to all content on
the site … which, at that time, was 1996 onward.
So that’s something, anyway. SW
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On Behalf Of Elizabeth Winter
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 12:32 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Archive of J Bone & Joint Surg (Am) no longer free
Hi, Susan--
Unfortunately, a new publisher has no legal obligation to honor the access rights granted by the previous publisher. They may have contractual obligations with the society that produces the journal that restricts this, or they may just have internal policies
that prevail. The effect, of course, is very problematic for libraries.
Is JBJS actually switching publishers, or has the publisher (JBJS appears to be self-published, no?) just changed its policy? In the case of a publisher changing its own access policy, the prevailing terms would be whatever licenses they have
with customers, so unless a publisher that changes its own policy in violation of its own existing license agreements, it is unfortunately free to do as it wishes. The question is, were you guaranteed that perpetual access in writing before?
This, as you note, doesn't necessarily engender goodwill from customers. The best thing to do, it seems, is for as many subscribers as possible to contact
JBJS and voice their displeasure and ask to have the access they previously had been granted restored. This situation unfortunately has happened many times over the years with a variety of publishers who switch their business models to include a separate
archive purchase.
We are JBJS subscribers as well and will certainly look into this and contact them if we find ourselves in your situation.
Good luck,
Elizabeth
P.S. Since you brought up the issue of publisher journal transfers, I'll mention this: The
Transfer Working Group of UKSG (which I co-chair) has been working for several years on improving the process for when journals transfer from one publisher to another. We have a Code of Practice (version
2 is the current version,
here. We are currently working on a version 3), to which publishers voluntarily sign on as "compliant," specifying that they will abide by the Code's recommendation when they transfer journals to and receive journals from other publishers. Librarians can
sign up to receive email notification of journal transfers
here. We also offer a
database where you can search for previous and upcoming transfers that have been entered by
Transfer-compliant publishers.
--
Elizabeth L. Winter
Electronic Resources Coordinator
Georgia Tech Library
Georgia Institute of Technology
email: elizabeth.winter@library.gatech.edu
phone: 404.385.0593
fax: 404.894.1723
From:
"Susan J Wishnetsky" <pasiphae@NORTHWESTERN.EDU>
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 12:32:25 PM
Subject: [SERIALST] Archive of J Bone & Joint Surg (Am) no longer free
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
E-mail:
pasiphae@northwestern.edu
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