Hi,
Just in case anyone out there didn't know Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
have changed their journal pricing policy for 2003. Up to now online has
come free with print, and when we renewed our subscriptions recently we
were not aware of this change and we just renewed these subscriptions,
so in essence unless we inform the agent otherwise we will effectively
have renewed as print only for 2003.
The web page at: http://www.erlbaum.com/journalinfo.htm says "In 2003,
LEA is pleased to offer several different subscription options for
institutions. Institutions can select an online + print package,
online-only, or print-only. Please see individual journal page for
detailed pricing".
I don't know when Lawrence Erlbaum Associates changed their pricing
policy, but there was no indication from our agents on their renewal
notices to us that the pricing policy for 2003 was any different to
2002.
I only found out about this by accident when it transpired that we had
lost access to post March 2002 issues of 5/6 of our Lawrence Erlbaum
subscriptions through Ingenta Select. It was the loss of access to one
of our Lawrence Erlbaum subscriptions that prompted me to check all our
other subscriptions. Ingenta have now restored our access to all
available issues of our Lawrence Erlbaum subscriptions, but it is still
not clear why we lost our access as the subscriptions were auto-renewed
by either the publisher or our agent, unfortunately the auto-renew date
had the end date of 30/03/02 (the end of the publisher's grace period).
Since we have had uninterrupted access to our Lawrence Erlbaum
subscriptions since March 2000, it's a bit worrying how easily one's
subscriptions can fall over!!
I also want to thank Ingenta for getting this all sorted out for us so
promptly.
Isn't life such fun!
Cheers
Lesley
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University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
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