There are other publishers choosing another direction when changing policy:
ADIS had the policy of taking an extra fee for online access, but decided to include the online version with the printed from 2002. 
But to be able to access the backfiles we're asked to pay an extra 20% of what we payed for the printed version the previous years. To access 2001 we have to pay 20% of the print price for 2001, for 2000 20% of the 2000 print price and so on. 
If there's a publisher with a more complicated model, please let me know....

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Wintrip" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: Endocrine Society Journals Now Come With "Free" Online Access


> The backfiles of these journals are also available to non-subscribers after 12
> months (this wasn't obvious from the website either).
> 
> Information on these and other similar biomedical titles offering free backfile
> access is at:
> http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
> 
> John
> 
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:20:32 -0000 Lesley Crawshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is not a promotion, but I came across this by accident and thought some
> > of you might be interested if you have a print subscription to any of the
> > Endocrine Society's journals - http://www.endojournals.org/  - the last time
> > I checked the site back in November 2001 you still had to pay extra to get
> > the online access.
> >
> > "Subscribers to the print version of The Endocrine Society's Journals have
> > access to Journals Online at no additional charge beginning in 2002". I have
> > to say it wasn't that easy to find this information.
> >
> > It still begs the question as to why there is not a better method of
> > informing libraries about online options for their current subscriptions and
> > verifying that they have been renewed.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Lesley
> >
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