If you were at Rollo Turner's workshop at the UKSG last week you will know
that the problem of having to activate access to "online with print"
subscriptions using those elusive subscription numbers came near the top
of our "suggestions for improvement".
I am beginning to think that "free online with print" is actually very
expensive in terms of staff time both for libraries and subscription
agents. It looks as if publishers are beginning to unbundle print and
online and this would at least give us a choice as well as more clout
when online access does not work (wishful thinking)!
With a 10% (or even 15%) discount e-only will still be more expensive for
us because of VAT but I will be recommending moving more journals to
e-only subscriptions next year.
Mieko
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Louise Cole wrote:
> Many of us are pleased to see that our print subscriptions have associated
> online versions that are 'free' as long as we keep subscribing to the print
> copies. The journals themselves often advertise this fact, building up the
> hopes of our customers. We would expect, given that we are receiving copies
> through the post, that the publisher knows we are subscribing and entitled
> to the online access.
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