Re: Perpetual Access to former Haworth titles now Taylor Francis Mark Hemhauser 16 Feb 2009 21:31 UTC

Where is Informaworld "showing" this?

Mark

Jenny Lockwood wrote:
> I know some aspects of this transfer has been discussed before, but
> have many libraries had time to start reviewing what  perpetual access
> rights Informaworld is showing for their individual holdings?  Under
> Haworth we were being given access to our subscribed volumes. I have
> begun to check our subscriptions and find none of our subscription
> holdings match what Informaworld  shows will be our perpetual  access
> holdings after 2009.( I am only on the third title so far) For
> example, according to Haworth and our subscription records we have
> access back to 1977 for Adminstration in Social Work.  Informaworld
> will give us access back to 1977 for 2009, but they are saying we will
> only get perpetual access from 2006 after 2009. I am not sure how the
> date 2006 was arrived at, but this is going to be a real mess--
> particularly with our limited staff to try to sort out -- if we
> haven't, in fact, lost rights to our formerly subscribed content.
> Did I miss something in previous discussions  about how perpetual
> access would be applied?
>

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Mark Hemhauser
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McKeldin Library
University of Maryland
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