I too think this is a significant step backwards, especially given the
high price rises we have seen for online journals from Nature in recent
years. Rolling archive models are notoriously difficult to keep track
of.
Louise
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Strikes me we'll be okay for journals ordered prior to and including
2006 provided we keep up the subscriptions. The extra fees come into
play if we cancel.
Also if we take out additional titles from 2007 onwards we'll get into a
four year rolling wall backfile problem. I think this is what is
referred to as "plus a specified back archive".
Now I think Nature would be wise to reconsider this rolling wall idea -
it will be hard for them and us to administrate and many publishers are
now moving away from such a model. Otherwise the other problem Nature
may have is that their sales figures for 2006 will be unexpectedly
higher as people rush to get in under the old terms and then possibly
rather lean in 2007.
Or maybe they'll be another model by then...
Nick
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Many thanks for posting this Lesley - I had not seen it and I usually
receive everything Nature put out at least twice!
I think it's a shame (or perhaps something stronger?) that Nature are
cutting the amount of backfile access that we get with a current
subscription. We are already getting lots of requests from users to buy
the
existing backfiles, which we so far can't afford, and now there willl be
even less content available. Why are the prices rising so steeply if
there
will be less content available?
Also the idea of charging for post-cancellation access?? This is one of
the
main reasons why people are wary of relying on electronic journals - if
you
buy the print, they can't ask for it back once you cancel!! If we've
paid
for the content once then why should we pay for it again just because we
don't want the new content? Other publishers e.g. Taylor and Francis
seem
able to continue to provide access even after we cancel a subscription
so
why can't NPG?
Ok, rant over!
Anna
At 10:33 29/09/2005 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Apologies for any cross posting.
>
>I thought not all members of this list might have seen this
announcement
>from NPG.
>
>Does anyone wish to make any comments re: these changes?
>
>Cheers
>Lesley
>
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>Sent: 28 September 2005 23:42
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>Subject: Nature Publishing Group introduces post-cancellation rights to
>licensed web content
>
>**Apologies for any cross posting.**
>
>Nature Publishing Group
>28 September 2005
>
>Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is amending its site license policy to
>provide customers with post-cancellation rights to content associated
with
>their licensed publications, subject to payment of an annual access
fee.
>At the same time, the period of content associated with site licenses
will
>be redefined.
>
>Currently the content accessible via a site license includes all
content
>published during the site license period, plus specified archive
content;
>usually back to 1997, or the first issue of the journal on the
nature.com
>platform. This will be maintained for licenses starting in 2006.
>
>For full details of how much content is licensed with each publication,
>please go to: http://npg.nature.com/pdf/07_lic/summaries_content.pdf
>
>The new licenses will provide post-cancellation rights to the licensed
>content. Therefore, all renewing customers will be granted
>post-cancellation rights to the content they can currently access via
>their site license.
>
>Site licenses starting in 2007 will provide access to all content
>published during the license period, plus a specified back archive.
The
>archive will generally include at least the four years of content
>preceding the license start date. Customers taking a new license from
2007
>will be granted post-cancellation rights to all content published
during
>the license period.
>
>Customers now have the opportunity to decide how they wish to manage
their
>archive collections, and whether they wish to license content in 2006
to
>guarantee post-cancellation rights to the available archives. New
>customers from 2007 will also have the opportunity to purchase
additional
>archival content that will automatically include post-cancellation
rights.
>
>This policy will apply as far as possible to all journals published by
>NPG. Post-cancellation rights will not apply to those journals that
offer
>open archives after 12 months, and some journals owned by scholarly
>societies may adopt different policies.
>
>The access fee supports the costs of hosting content, and related
customer
>service. Access fees for 2007 have not yet been confirmed, but the fees
>will be competitive with other providers of archiving solutions. Access
>fees will not apply for clients with a current license to the relevant
>title.
>
>Post-cancellation rights and access in perpetuity have been much
debated
>by librarians and publishers. With these changes we hope to reassure
our
>customers that they will have ongoing rights to content for which they
>have paid license fees. Technical issues still prevent any guarantee
of
>perpetual access ad infinitum, but with this new policy, we are
providing
>a sustainable solution that will accommodate the needs of libraries for
>many years to come.
>
>Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a division of Macmillan Publishers
Ltd,
>dedicated to serving the academic, professional scientific and medical
>communities. NPG's flagship title, Nature, is the world's most
>highly-cited weekly multidisciplinary journal and was first published
in
>1869. Other publications and services include Nature research journals,
>Nature Reviews, Nature Clinical Practice, a range of prestigious
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>NPG is a global company, with headquarters in London and offices in New
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>Basingstoke. For more information, please go to www.nature.com.
>
>Contact details:
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>
>This press release is also available at
>http://npg.nature.com/pdf/cancellation.doc.
>
>For all NPG press releases, go to
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Anna Sansome
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