Georgia, Chuck et al,
Just click on the cover image for this journal (or the More Publication
Info link underneath that) on ScienceDirect to get to:
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/00145793
which says:
"Free access to Special Issues, Mini Reviews and Jeff's Views is available
through http://www.FEBSLetters.com"
and
"Non-subscribers to FEBS Letters may find easy access to free content
through the FEBS Letters website at http://www.febsletters.org. Free access
includes minireviews, special issues and all content older than 12 months."
Presumably the content older than 12 months is also available on
ScienceDirect, but I'm not sure about the minireviews and special issues
within the last 12 months.
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
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--On 02 April 2005 05:12 -0600 Georgia Baugh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The entire journal does not seem to be freely available. Issues from
> volume 1 number 1 (1968) through volume 562, numbers 1-3 (March 26,
> 2004) and one other later issue are marked as "Complimentary" on the
> ScienceDirect Web site. Since I am not using my University's IP address
> at the moment, the most current 12 months are NOT available. Also,
> since I can find anything about this "free" access, it could disappear
> anytime. Does anyone know anything about Elsevier's policy on this
> journal?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Georgia Baugh
> Electronic Resources Reference Librarian
> Pius XII Memorial Library
> Saint Louis University
> 3650 Lindell Blvd.
> St. Louis, MO 63108
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Hamaker, Chuck wrote:
>
>> Following up on a post last year from Leslie Crashaw on LIS-E re free
>> journal archives from the Pscyhonomic Society. (Psychonomic Society
>> Journals Archive available from 1993-2000. Wed 4/14/2004 10:36 AM)
>> Leslie said: "Journals archives are beginning to appear all over the
>> place, but finding out about their existence is not always easy."
>>
>>
>> FEBS Letters seems to be available free as far as its backfiles (archive
>> volumes) from 1968, vol. 1 no. 1 to a date I can't easily determine to
>> everyone at Science Direct.
>> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00145793
>>
>>
>> Is there a list of other titles at Elsevier or other publishers who have
>> generally not done much publicity of their free backfile access? These
>> don't seem to be open access journals, but runs of free -archives. I
>> know, for example, that some of the society and association backfiles on
>> the Blackwell's Synergy site are similarly available free-but there
>> doesn't seem to be much notification of this-its sort of stumble on them
>> experience.
>>
>> I'm particularly interested in this practice from commercial publisher
>> sites, even if the titles are society for association titles.
>>
>> Highwire of course is well known for working with its publishers to make
>> extensive archives available.
>>
>> But I suspect several other commercial publishers are doing this as
>> well, perhaps spurred on by contract negotiations with new societies
>> they are signing on or at negotiation time with existing society
>> contracts. There doesn't seem to be a single source for identifying the
>> free archives of such titles. Or, I may have missed where to go to find
>> them.
>>
>>
>>
>> Chuck Hamaker
>> UNC Charlotte
>> Charlotte, NC USA
>>
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