Dear John
You are not alone! I refuse to take calls from them anymore - the poor
saps employed in their sales call centre are instructed by their
supervisors to phone you every few days if you or any of your academics
(they contact them directly from their database of names of contributors to
their publications) have ever shown a glimmer of an interest in any of
their publications, especially the e journals packages and stuff like the
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. And probably if you haven't!
It's a real pain.
Yours, Linda L
At 16:54 05/08/2002 +0100, John Clarke wrote:
>Afternoon all
>
>Is anyone else being phoned at regular intervals by sales people from
>Nature Publishing?
>
>They seem to be checking on cancelled titles (although it usually proves to
>be one of our departments soing this rather than the library), or otherwise
>cold-calling in the expectation that we have spare money for one of their
>new titles (moderately priced at only £550).
>
>I thought our subscription agents were meant to deal with all this!
>
>John
>
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Linda Lisgarten
Head of Library and Information Services
The School of Pharmacy, University of London
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