Hi all
Speaking of issues going missing does anyone know where 'Journal of
Fish Biology' years 1993-1994 which were previously on SD are now?
I know that since the publisher changed in 2003 the 2 most recent
volumes are on Blackwell Synergy and that 1995-2002 are on IngentaSelect
(although the volume/issue details for v.48 & 49 look a bit odd? and we
currently have variable access) but where are 1993-1994?
We previously had a link to SD for 1993-2002 but the issues there have
disappeared altogether the link now says:
'Your request cannot be completed. The journal requested is not
available in this product'
Any help appreciated...
Julia
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Julia Burke
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University of Wales Bangor
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Lesley Crawshaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This may not be relevant to your problems, but...
>
> We had several problems earlier this year with our ScienceDirect account. I
> had decided I would cross check our access for all the content on
> ScienceDirect against a spreadsheet I've been maintaining ever since we
> signed our first SD contract. As I began this process a number of problems
> began to appear. First I found that we had lost access to the 1993 and 1994
> issues of our Academic Press titles, which we had licensed under the terms
> of a previous deal. Then I found that we had lost access to some titles
> just because they had ceased publication. Then I found that our access to
> some former Harcourt Health Science titles had ceased. Then a couple of
> students informed me that they couldn't access the latest issues of
> Environmental Pollution, one of our subscribed etitles. On checking again it
> became apparent that we had lost 2004 access to all our subscribed etitles.
> The worse thing about all of this was that somethings changed as I was
> checking, meaning I had to keep going back again and checking. In fact as is
> often the case I never managed to complete the checking of all our access on
> SD, as I suddenly found we had another set of access problems with another
> major publisher!
>
> I should say that once identified all the problems on ScienceDirect were
> resolved very quickly. However, the onus is on us to identify the problems,
> and that is a very onerous task indeed.
>
> At the time we seemed to be the only institution (we are still under the
> terms of the NESLI license, not the NESLI2 license), which was experiencing
> these problems, so I never bought it to the attention of the list.
>
> These sorts of problems are certainly not restricted to ScienceDirect. We
> seem to have had so many problems with our eaccess to all kinds of
> publishers and services this year.
>
> In fact, subscription access control systems seem to be a major weakness in
> many ejournal delivery services. Whether it relates to poor quality
> subscription data held by the publisher or the links between the publisher's
> subscription/collection data and the systems that host the
> subscriptions/collections I really can't be sure. It is certainly an area
> where improvement is urgently needed. We are after all at the end of the day
> paying substantial amounts of money for these services. Why should the onus
> then be on us to make sure we have access to what we have paid for? The onus
> must be on the publisher to make sure that their subscribers get the service
> they have paid for.
>
> Anyway, time to look at the next problem!
>
> Cheers
> Lesley
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eileen Jamieson
> Sent: 19 August 2004 09:16
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Journals disappearing from ScienceDirect
>
>
>
>>Hi
>>
>>We have had a recurring problem with journals suddenly disappearing
>
>>from our subscribed list on ScienceDirect (and Web Editions before
>
>>this). This week I've just discovered another 10 are missing. That's
>>about 15% of our Elsevier e-journals that we can't get full text access
>>to. It doesn't seem to be related to subs renewal, but I could be wrong
>>about this. I would be interested in knowing how widespread this
>>problem is. Has anyone else had this problem, or is it just us?
>>
>>
>>
>>Ms Eileen Jamieson
>>Electronic Services Group
>>
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Julia Burke
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University of Wales Bangor
Main Library, College Road
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