Hi Terry and others,

Another journal that hasn't made it to the new Springer site is
Astronomy and Astrophysics. This "missing" title was reported to us by
one of our astrophysicists yesterday, who was trying to access content
in this title, only to be redirected to the new SpringerLINK home page,
which was slightly confusing for him. This journal is not appearing in
the list of journals on the new site. Astronomy and Astrophysics is a
journal now published by EDP Sciences, but we previously were able to
access 5 years of this title on the old LINK site at:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00230/index.htm. The home
page for this journal on EDP Sciences is also pointing to the old
Springer site and being redirected to the new SpringerLINK home page.

I understand the new site is being scoured for any other problems, and
that it should be all sorted in a couple of weeks.

It raises the question about why the old site that we used to use
couldn't remain accessible whilst the new site was all sorted out.
During that period we could have been given adequate warning of the
change, and made preparations for this change. And one again it is our
users who are being inconvenienced by this state of affairs!!

On a positive note we currently have access to all the book series
formerly available on LINK which was not part of the open consortium
license that we signed. I have informed Springer of this and was told
that this will cease once the "system is running stable and smooth".

Cheers
Lesley

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Sent: 03 July 2003 09:21
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Subject: Re: Springer MetaPress URLs


Terry - thank you very much for this list.  However, it appears that
Metapress is not offering everything that the old Springer Link service
offered.  For example: Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, which was
previously at <link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10338/>.  What has
happened to it?

Peter King

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:08:25 +0100 Terry Bucknell
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Lesley has temporarily changed the configuration of this list to allow

> me to attach of the list of URLs for Springer's MetaPress site.
>
> I've attached the file in .csv (comma separated values) format to
> reduce the file size and to make it possible for non-Excel users to
> make use of it. (To open it in Excel just make sure you looking for
> files of type Text Files or All Files).
>
> I don't think I'll touch my links until things have settled down a bit

> more!
>
>
>
> Terry Bucknell
> Electronic Resources Manager
> Harold Cohen Library
> University of Liverpool
> PO Box 123 Liverpool L69 3DA
>
> Tel: +44 (0)151 794 5408  Fax: +44 (0)151 794 5417
> Email: [log in to unmask]
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