Hi everyone,
I had a quick look at our Springer Link titles. No link is working. Even
their http://link.springer.de/ is not working. What is going on!!
Satu
At 15:10 02/07/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>It seems that the dead links now have been replaced by redirects to the
>new site. When we use the old links to the springer.de-site we are now
>automatic redirected to the new site. So it seems to work out - however
>the change was quite a surprise!
>
>Regards,
>Thøger Kristensen
>Aalborg University Library
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lesley Crawshaw [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 2. juli 2003 15.05
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Springer, what were you thinking?
>
>
>Hi Louise,
>
>We've been caught out by this. Thanks for pointing this out, I've just
>checked a couple and they are as you say now "dead" links. What really
>irritates me is that on the 30/03/03 I sent the following email to the
>Springer Helpdesk:
>
>"On the what's new page at: http://www.springerlink.com/whatsnew.htm is
>says "This Summer Springer's online information service LINK will be
>relaunched with a new logo [ SpringerLink ], a new appearance and a new
>URL www.SpringerLink.com"
>
>My question is should we point our users to this new site now?
>
>Also will we have to change all our existing links to point to this
>service?"
>
>This is the reply I received on the 07/04/03:
>
>"Thank you very much for your mail. This was our first general
>announcement of a new release for SpringerLink. You do not need to
>change your existing links. We will continue with more precise
>information in the course of the next weeks and you may be assured that
>we will do everything in order to avoid work for our users in connection
>with the new launch."
>
>
>I would like to point out that I haven't received any more premise
>information since receiving this reply, so much for the publisher giving
>more precise information!!!
>
>Would someone from Springer like to explain what has happened and what
>those of us who have dead links need to do to get them working again?
>This really isn't good enough - we are after all paying for this
>service. Also, when did this happen, and will we be entitled to
>compensation for loss of access caused through no fault of our own.
>Don't they want their journals to be used?
>
>Cheers
>Lesley
>
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>University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Louise Cole
>Sent: 02 July 2003 13:44
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Springer, what were you thinking?
>
>
>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
Ms Satu Nieminen
Assistant Librarian
School of Pharmacy
29/39 Brunswick Square
Bloomsbury
London WC1N 1AX
Tel. 0207 753 5833
Fax 0207 753 5947
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