Same with us here at Stuttgart University in Germany.
6 subscriptions, most of them at held institute libraries, not at the
central library. This will become particularly annoying to check ... :-(
Involved are totally different local vendors, including direct ordering
from MIT Press.
Regards,
B.-C. Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library, Germany
Louise Cole wrote:
>
> I've just checked and we have the same problem here at Leeds -
> many thanks for pointing this out Lesley. All MIT journals on
> Catchword have not been updated for 2001 for us. And again, like
> Herts, we have renewed all titles ...
>
> Louise
>
> #Hi,
> #
> #After my earlier email on problems with maintaining access to subscribed
> #electronic journals, I thought I would share with you a real problem I've
> #just uncovered with our electronic access to MIT Press journals via
> #Catchword and Highwire for 2001 only this week. It illustrates graphically
> #the problems many of us face trying to keep our electronic journals up and
> #running from year to year. I am also sharing it with you because I can't be
> #sure that this problem with MIT Press journals is only affecting my
> #institution.
> #
> #We have 12 current subscriptions to MIT Press journals, 10 of which are
> #available electronically to us via Catchword. One of these, Neural
> #Computation, is (or should be) also available to us through Highwire Press.
> #
> #Earlier this week two of our users reported that they could no longer access
> #the 2001 issues of this journal through Catchword and that they had lost all
> #access to this journal through Highwire.
>
> [snip]
> #
> #Cheers
> #Lesley
> #
> #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> #Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant, LIS,
> #University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
> # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> #e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> #phone: 01707 284662 fax: 01707 284666
> #web: http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/subjects/natsci/ejournals/
> #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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