Hi,
Trying to keep up with journal changes is a major task for many of us,
and some publishers now provide detailed information on these changes to
us either via newsletters e.g. Blackwell Publishing or by providing a
part of their site dedicated to supporting us in this area e.g.
ScienceDirect.
We currently have a NESLI license to access almost all of the journals
on Wiley InterScience. The other day I was visiting the Wiley site as
part of routine maintenance to check whether issues were yet available
for 2003 for a number of Wiley journals which had changed their title at
the end of 2002, and which hadn't been online the last time I checked at
the end of March 2003, plus a number of outstanding queries which hadn't
yet been sorted. We all have these don't we? Normally I visit this site
on a monthly basis, but the Divine situation has meant that I've spent a
lot of time this year trying to liaise with publishers, particularly
smaller publishers, to stop several of our key online only Divine
subscriptions from falling over.
I was pleasantly suprised, but also slightly miffed, to come across a
new offering from Wiley InterScience, called the Discovery Newsletter,
which provide information on journal title changes, cessations, etc.
etc.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/newsletter/index.html
What I was miffed about was why I hadn't been informed (as contact for
the NESLI deal) about this newsletter, especially in view of the fact
that I had recently been visited by a member of the Wiley marketing
team, following on from my comments to this list about the splitting of
some Wiley journals earlier in the year into separate parts. Several of
my queries were sorted as a result of this meeting. But....couldn't
Wiley have alerted me to this new offering, or was I expected to find
out about by accident?
The newsletter is very helpful, but does contains some inaccuracies. If
the publisher can't get this information correct, what chance have we?
It informed me that Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships
changed title at the end of 2002 to become QSAR and Combinatorial
Science. Now this is one of the journals where I've been waiting for the
new title to appear on the Wiley site, having been informed about this
forthcoming change by one of our agents, SwetsBlackwell. Unfortunately
the Wiley InterScience site doesn't seem to know about this change and
is still listing 2003 content under the old title, in contradiction to
what the newsletter says. Another outstanding query to add to the list!!
It also lists a journal which is no longer published by Wiley, called
Competitive Intelligence Report - the correct title is Competitive
Intelligence Review.
Did other people get informed about this?
Cheers
Lesley
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