Hi,
You are certainly not the only one.
We have access to both pre- and post 1997 content, i.e. full access, but
still the icons are showing only partial access...
Confusing and disappointing.
When launching a new platform, problems like this should not appear.
Heidi Fossum
University of Oslo
Library of medicine and health sciences
PB 1113 Blindern
N-0317 Oslo
Norway
Ph. +47 23 07 44 73 Fax. +47 23 07 44 30
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On 28.09.2006 15:47, Lesley Crawshaw 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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