Sorry to add to the January 2005 e-journal blues, but I am curious to know
if anyone else is experiencing similar difficulties to us in being denied
fulltext access to 2005 issues of titles on ScienceDirect? It appears
that for the majority of titles which have published into the new year, we
now get one complimentary issue for 2005, but any others which have been
published are listed as unsubscribed. From my checking the "embargo"
seems to apply to titles which are part of the Freedom Collection package,
excluding titles in our base subscription where 2005 access seems fine.
Examples of titles where the 2005 issues can't be accessed at Sheffield
Hallam are: Applied surface engineering, Applied thermal engineering and
International journal of fatigue, but clearly if my theory is correct, you
may have the problem with different titles. I have e-mailed Elsevier
about this and haven't received a reply as yet, but as our users are
already querying why they can't access the latest issues, I would be
interested to hear if anyone has a similar problem. For information we are
still on our original ScienceDirect contract which runs to the end of this
year.
Best wishes,
Ann
Ann Betterton
Collection Development Manager
Sheffield Hallam University
Tel. 0114 225 2117
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