Hi,
We changed our links from link.springer.de to www.springerlink.com in
April. These links still work (and don't redirect to the new
springer.metapress.com site). I stumbled across their MetaPress site last
week and asked about setting up access to titles (add we has access to our
print subs, but not consortial titles), and about usage stats.
Hopefully Greg Neal of MetaPress won't mind me forwarding on his reply...
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Date: 27 June 2003 11:28 -0500
From: Greg Neal - MetaPress <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Terry Bucknell' <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: Springer MetaPress
Thank you for your feedback! Please note that the
http://springerlink.metapress.com website is not currently in production or
"live on the Internet" at this time. While this site is viewable if
accessed, full functionality has not yet been enabled. The
http://springerlink.metapress.com website will officially debut on July 1,
2003.
In regard to your inquiry below, please note also that since the
http://springerlink.metapress.com website is currently not live, MetaPress
is still importing subscription data from Springer for MetaPress customers.
Once this process is completed (shortly before July 1, 2003) your account
should have access to all titles which Springer has a subscription record
for, or has otherwise informed MetaPress that your account should be able to
access.
Also, MetaPress is currently beta-testing or "MetaPress Administrator"
website, which should be released in late 2003. This website will allow
account administrators to obtain usage statistics for their institutional
accounts directly from the website, as you have indicated below. Currently,
if you need to obtain usage metrics for your institutional MetaPress
account, you should send an e-mail request to [log in to unmask], which
will prompt our Customer Service Representatives to obtain the usage
reporting for your institutional account as requested.
Please let me know if you have any further questions regarding the
http://springerlink.metapress.com website!
Thank you!
Greg Neal
MetaPress Account Services
[log in to unmask]
(205)981-5143
http://www.metapress.com
--On 02 July 2003 13:44 +0100 Louise Cole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Those of you who have links from your Springer journals to the German
> server will be interested to know that all your individual titles links
> will now be dead, and those which do manage to redirect will go to - the
> wrong Metapress page! Not a Springer journal in sight.
>
> Those of you who have links from your Springer journals to the American
> server will be further interested to know thatr all your individual titles
> will be redirecting to a 'Springer-LINK' site which now has a Metapress
> interface and seems (for the moment anyway) to allow access to the same
> group of titles. Off-campus, who knows?
>
> We're fairly lucky at Leeds since we had URLs to both sites. But I
> thought that Springer's new interface would run in parallel with the old
> one for a while? and that redirects from springer.de would work.
>
> Anyone else been caught out?
>
> Louise
>
> Louise Cole
> Electronic Resources Team Leader
> Health Sciences Library
> University of Leeds
> Leeds LS2 9JT
>
> e-mail [log in to unmask]
> tel 0113 343 5502
> fax 0113 343 4381
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