I had 1 title stop working on Metapress last week, but Metapress support got it back up in less than an hour. I checked all of our Metapress titles (we only have 16) and all except the 1 was working last week. I haven’t received any notifications from publishers yet about the transition.

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: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrea Imre
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 2:14 PM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Metapress

Hi Jeannette,

We have seen the notice in EBSCONET a few months ago but have not heard any official word about the transition from any publisher currently hosted on Metapress.

The press release states that “Atypon and EBSCO will work together to transition Metapress clients to Atypon's Literatum platform. Under the terms of the agreement, Metapress will continue to service its current clients through the transition.” http://www2.atypon.com/news-and-events/press-release.php?id=2053

There are several publishers hosting their content on Metapress. Each of those publishers should be contacting library administrators listed on the Metapress account but I have not received any notices yet. In previous transitions Atypon was pretty good with library administrator notifications.

The above press release was dated April 14, 2014.

Does anyone have any info about the transition timeline? Metapress is still up and running.

Andrea

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Andrea Imre

Electronic Resources Librarian

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Morris Library - MC6632

605 Agriculture Dr

Carbondale, IL 62901

phone: 618-453-4339

fax: 618-453-3452

e-mail: aimre@lib.siu.edu

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Skwor, Jeanette
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 3:20 PM
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Subject: [SERIALST] Metapress

How many of you - us - are aware that Metapress has been bought out by Atypon, and the Metapress interface is to be phased out?

If there’s been a discussion here and I missed it, can you point me to searching the archives?

We had a problem with 3 of our Metapress titles, e-access was off, and were told that was the reason for the delay we had in solving the problem.

Jeanette L. Skwor

Serials Dept., Cofrin Library

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

2420 Nicolet Drive

Green Bay, WI 54311-7003

"Serials control is like trying to nail Jell-o to the wall."

--Anonymous

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