At Stuttgart University, we have been maintaining a list tracing both
positive and negative decisions institutions all over the world have
made with respect to site licenses for Nature and the Nature monthlies.
It proved to be very useful in getting Nature to reconsider its policy
...
Nature - what other libraries say
http://www.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/ejournals/Nature_andere_Univ.html
We still have to wait for reliable pricing conditions for the Nature
monthlies and reviews and then will have to see where we can get the
extra money needed. No decision has yet been made. Since we are
primarily a technical university, Nature itself has top priority, but we
might also consider Nature Biotechnology.
Best regards,
Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library
Roy Davies wrote:
>
> Apologies for the cross-posting. A couple of months ago
> there was a lot of controversy over the price of
> subscriptions to the online version of Nature. Recently the
> publishers announced some changes so perhaps our protests
> have had some effect.
>
> http://www.nature.com/help/sitelicences/introduction/index.html
>
> The costs to most university libraries would still be many
> times that of the printed version. No doubt the publishers
> would argue that online access will cause a great increase
> in use and it is worth paying more for access to the
> world's leading scientific journal. (However, if the same
> arguments were used by all publishers of prestigious
> journals we would end up only being able to afford access
> to a very small number).
>
> Is Nature online a publication that we cannot afford NOT to
> take? I would be interested in knowing, and I imagine
> many other people on these lists would to, how many academic
> libraries do subscribe to Nature online or intend doing so.
>
> Roy Davies
> University Library
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>
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