Hi,
Now that many of our subscriptions are online only it is getting harder and
harder to spot title changes etc.. Whilst checking our renewals lists for
2005 I decided to go and look at the pricing for the American Physiological
Society's journals as we currently have online only subscriptions to several
of their titles, and I wondered if they had maybe thought of offering an
online bundle of their journals for 2005. I visited
http://www.physiology.org/ and noticed that there was a journal called
Physiology there which I had never heard of. When I selected the link
http://physiologyonline.physiology.org/ it became clear that Physiology was
the new title for News in Physiological Sciences (NIPS) and had been
launched in August 2004. NIPS is one of our subscriptions. Our renewals list
had no information about this title change, so I guess our agents have the
same problem as us in keeping up to date with such changes.
The point I wish to make is why myself as administrator for this online
title hadn't had any communication from the APS to inform me of this change.
Once again the only way to find out about these changes is to visit each
publishers site (an onerous task) and try and spot the changes for
ourselves. Maybe they sent it via snail mail instead, in which case I am
still waiting.
Come on APS, don't you want to keep your subscribers up to date with your
journal publishing programme? Some 2005 pricing information would be helpful
too!
Did anyone else know about this title change?
Cheers
Lesley
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