Hi Lesley,
Its true that there is this confusion of icons on new Springer site. The concern you have expressed is quite sensible. As you said the new icons are supposedly for ease of access.
The issues you have mentioned are also faced by our us here at our University too. I hope we get a solution to this confusion.
Regards
Kshema
Kshema Prakash
Faculty Librarian - Gr I
Central Library
Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University)
Dayalbagh, Agra 282005
U.P. India
rawshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone else out there find the assignment of the access icons on the
new Springer site disappointing and confusing?
The reason for raising this is that I assume that the new icons are meant to
be more helpful in identifying access rights to us than they were on the old
site, but my feeling is that all that has changed are the icons themselves,
although at least an explanation of what each icon stands for is now
available.
In our own case, we have access to most of the post-1997 content on
SpringerLink, but not to the pre-1997 content, hence the icons next to our
journal titles are almost all now showing as partial access. However, there
are some journals that are showing as partial access where all that we have
access to are the articles from a single issue.
Does the fact that the same partial access icon is used for both access to a
complementary single issue and for more substantial access e.g. 1997 to date
confuse your users?
Isn't it about time that MetaPress found a different way of displaying
access to a free issue than using the same icon that identifies access to
subscribed content? On ScienceDirect they use a different icon to denote
where complementary access has been given to all or part of a journal.
Shouldn't MetaPress consider doing something similar?
However, the situation gets even more confusing when one goes down to volume
level. If I look at the following journal Cognitive Therapy and Research on
the new site I find that at the journal title level the icon is showing as
partial access which is correct, because we only have access to the
post-1997 content. However if I go to the volume/issue level some of the
volumes have the full access icon showing and some of the volumes have the
partial access icon showing. In both of these cases the icons at issue level
are all showing as full access, which is what we have. This doesn't make
sense at all, surely if one has access to all the content in a volume then
the icon should be showing as full access.
Has anyone else out there experienced icon confusion with both the new
Springer MetaPress site and the old MetaPress sites?
Cheers
Lesley
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