Hi Susan

 

I agree, this is a shame.  Not just because of the generous open archive which was available to researchers until now, but also because of the moving wall of back access you report.  The licensed content may well cover you under a clause of ‘years you have paid for’ if you had a subscription going back to 1996 – I would certainly look into this – and unless there is a good reason to withdraw some years of a frontfile when a title moves to another publisher (I suppose in this case it could be argued that 1889-1999 is a better range to promote for one-off purchase than 1889-1995) the rights you have previously enjoyed should be honoured on transfer.

 

I hope the move from open archive to one-off payments is not symptomatic of a wider trend !

 

Best wishes

Louise

 

Louise Cole

Senior Information Advisor (Collections)

Nightingale Centre, Kingston Hill Campus

Kingston University

Kingston upon Thames

Surrey

KT2 7LB

 

Email louise.cole@kingston.ac.uk

Telephone 020 8417 5383 or 020 8417 7074

Fax 020 8417 5312

 

 

 

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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