Message forwarded to the list on behalf of Dr Diana Leitch, Assistant
Director, John Rylands University Library of Manchester:
Dear Colleagues,
I signed the licence for site-wide access for the whole of the
University of Manchester and all its constituent insitutions just
before the announcement on 23rd April from Nature Publishing that all
content will be available from 1st May 2001. This was very welcome
news and will make the substantial charges more palatable. We are
waiting for this date for general release of this material to all our
users to avoid the inevitable complaints about lack of access to the
news,views,etc with the current system.
I have licensed Nature, all the monthlies and Nature Reviews. We
have been under considerable pressure from our Biological Scientists
to provide access to this key material.
In tests that we are doing we are experiencing slight problems of
hanging in Netscape after access and wonder if any other institutions
who are already users are having the same problem or indeed any other
access problems.
Kind regards,
Diana M. Leitch
Dr Diana M. Leitch
Assistant Director and Deputy University Librarian
John Rylands University Library of Manchester
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> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:35:48 +0100
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> From: Roy Davies <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Nature online - any subscribers?
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
> University of Exeter
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> Exeter EX4 4PT
> UK
>
> tel. 01392 263767
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