Hi Julia,
We'd like an answer to this as well as our catalogue still has a link to SD
for 1993-2002, and of course ingenta has never had the 1993-1994 former
Academic Press backfiles. Maybe Blackwell Publishing has the backfiles now,
although they aren't showing on Synergy?
Cheers
Lesley
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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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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-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eileen Jamieson
> Sent: 19 August 2004 09:16
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> 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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