Rachel.,
I am the publisher of the Journal of the Irish College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Ireland and would be pleased if you could spare the time to
discuss these issues with me. Perhaps you would like to come over to the
Mercer Library for coffee some morning?
Best wishes,
Beatrice Doran
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> From: Rachel McNicholl
> Reply To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2000 11:11 am
> To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: Free medical e-journals
>
> I would be intersted to know how these free medical e-journals are funded
> (and have sent a query to freemedicaljournals.com) and in lis-e-journal or
> ALPSP-discuss subscribers' experience and views on offering free full-text
> access to the on-line version of their print journals. How do print
> subscribers react to the on-line version being available free-for-all when
> they are paying for it (their only real advantage then being that they
> have
> the print version for reference/archiving purposes)? And how does free
> full-text access affect print sales long term?
> We are a small learned society publisher (circulation of proceedings and
> journals under 1,000 each, plus library exchanges) currently offering free
> full-text access to archive but not current issues of our periodicals on
> our
> web site; contents and abstracts of current issues are also posted. We are
> currently discussing the pros and cons of posting full-text of current
> contents with access restricted to subscribers vs free full-text of
> current
> and archive issues. The latter option raises queries about the impact of
> free full-text access on print sales and subscriptions: some of our
> authors/editors argue that print sales would increase as a result of the
> promotional effect of free full-text access, others fear that print
> subscriptions would fall off long-term. I have yet to come across
> convincing
> arguments in favour of free full-text access increasing print
> subscriptions
> and wonder whether any of you have?
> Rachel McNicholl
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> Rachel McNicholl
> Editor of Publications
> Royal Irish Academy
> 19 Dawson Street
> Dublin 2
> Tel. +353-1-6762570
> Fax +353-1-6762346
> http://www.ria.ie
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [log in to unmask] [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 4:00 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Free medical e-journals
> >
> > This is a site for free medical e-journals. When you go to the site, you
> > can
> > sign up an e-mail alert, which tells you when new journals are added to
> > their database.
> >
> > I think, this could be useful. Come to find out:
> >
> > http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/fp/go.cfm
> >
> > Elgin Helen Jakisch
> >
> > Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH
> > Scientific Information & Library, H823
> > D-65926 Frankfurt am Main
> > Tel.: 069 / 305-13691
> > Fax : 069 / 305-81736
> > Mail: [log in to unmask]
> >
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