Hi Jonathan,
You've been luckier than me then, as what you describe is what I would
have expected to happen in these situations i.e. direct emailing. I have
definitely never received a direct email from Annual Reviews, Inc, about
the backfiles, so maybe there has been a glitch/error in the database of
existing subscribers that they used when they "contacted" their
subscribers. I am definitely down as the contact person for the Annual
Reviews, as I set up and manage these subscriptions.
Cheers
Lesley
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Subject: Re: Did You Know Annual Reviews, Inc. Have Now Digitized Their
Entire Backfile and Access is Available for a One-Time Payment
Lesley,
Our e-resources person received a direct email from Annual Reviews Inc
on March 28th outlining the offer and including the pdf leaflet on it.
In the email to her Annual Reviews made it clear they were writing to us
as existing subscribers: "This exciting new product from Annual Reviews
gives you more ways to build your institution's online collection by
supplementing your existing Annual Reviews subscriptions with immediate
access to 834+ volumes...." The email even went on to say: "Would you
please let me know if you are not the librarian so that I may update our
records. I thank you in advance for your assistance."
Jonathan
At 12:08 04/06/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>With so many publishers adding additional backfiles sometimes free for
>existing subscribers, sometimes for a one-off charge, it is getting
>increasingly difficult to keep up with all the changes, especially when
>publishers don't tell us, their customers, about what they are up to.
>Earlier in the year I reported to this list that I had noticed that
>many Kluwer journals where the backfiles had previously only gone back
>a few years to e.g. 1999 or 2000, seemed to have had additional content
>added, in many cases back to 1997 or 1998. Did Kluwer ever come back
>and clarify their position to any of us? Well, I never heard anything
>from them, although there is now information about this in their FAQs
>at: http://www.lwwonline.com/common/kap/gw-faq.htm#Q7
>
>I am sending this email because it may be of interest to some of you -
>apologies if you already know about it - it is not intended to be an
>advertisement for Annual Reviews, Inc.
>
>Do you know that Annual Reviews, Inc. has now digitized all the
>backfiles of the Annual Review series, which can now be purchased for a
>one-off price of $5000 per location? I've known that this was in
>process for quite a while now, and had emailed Annual Reviews, Inc.
>back in the middle of September 2002, asking for further details e.g.
>would this cost extra etc..
>
>As we have print/online subscriptions to 22/29 Annual Reviews, I might
>have expected that the publisher might email me (as the online
>subscription administrator), that the digitization of their backfiles
>was complete and provide me with pricing/license details. I had been
>promised that they would let me know once the backfile program was
>available. Maybe they've sent it on a flier, but email to the
>designated contact seems to be the most sensible route of communicating
>such information.
>
>It was only because I was looking for an article in the Annual Review
>of Astronomy and Astrophysics that I spotted additional volumes that
>weren't there previously. I don't know how long it has been since the
>digitization has been completed and pricing available.
>
>Those of you who don't already know about it - did anybody? - can find
>further information at:
>
>http://www.annualreviews.org/inst-subscribers/ebvc.asp
>
>I would have appreciated if Annual Reviews, Inc. could have informed
>institutional subscribers like myself as soon as this information
>became available. We see this as a wonderful resource and are very much
>wanting to purchase access to it, providing the feedback we get from
>our departments is positive, which it seems to be so far. However,
>wanting to purchase access to the archive is one thing, there is also a
>need to find this extra money out of existing resources because of a
>lack of forewarning of pricing information, which makes planning
>budgets extremely difficult at the moment.
>
>Also, is there any chance of a free trial like the IoP did when they
>digitized their archive, whereby access to their archive is free until
>the end of the year, giving us time to get orders in place if we wish
>to have access to their archive?
>
>Cheers
>Lesley
>
>
>
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