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Subject: Online only Supplements - out of reach!?
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 14:46:53 -0600
From: Alfred Kraemer <akraemer@mcw.edu>

The Oct. issue of Trends in Genetics -an Elsevier Science journal
includes a
half-page announcement of an online only supplement entitled: Mouse
Models
of Human Diseases. At the head of the announcement it reads "Free with
TiG
this month:" and farther down "Access is free to TiG subscribers". (p.
562)
When I tried to access the online supplement I remembered the hoops one
has
to jump through to get to the journal site - one has to became a
Biomednet
subscriber (free but requires filling out a extensive profile). After
locating the online only supplement, and clicking on the pdf option, I
faced
an 'Institutional Subscriber' box which asked for a subscription key.
I entered our print subscriber number and got nowhere.

Has anyone else encountered this and found out whether there is any
access
for print subscribers to this journal?

I'm aware of e-pages for Pediatrics and some other journals, however,
e-pages for Pediatrics are free to non-subscribers. If indeed there is
no
access for print subscribers to the online only supplements, it would a
first for me - and certainly for many of our patrons.

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

Alfred Kraemer
Head, Technical Services
Medical College of Wisconsin Libraries
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Milwaukee, WI 53226

Phone: 414-456-4273
E-Mail: akraemer@mcw.edu