Yes we are very concerned. One of the only reasons we subscribed to
Internurse in the first place was for British Journal of Midwifery
online. I'd like to know how they can justify this. Is there anything
we can do collectively?
Disgruntled of Tooting
Marina
Marina Logan Bruce
Library Services Manager
St. George's University of London
Cranmer Terrace
LONDON SW17 0RE
Tel: 020 8725 5452
----- Original Message -----
From: Lesley Crawshaw <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:45 pm
Subject: MA HealthCare Ltd - British Journal of Midwifery will no
longer be part of internurse.com but is on intermid.co.uk at extra cost!
To: [log in to unmask]
> Hi,
>
> We have a current subscription to internurse.com where we've been
> able to
> access the British Journal of Midwifery alongside other key nursing
> journals.
>
> We have just received a letter and a beautifully illustrated guide
> informingus that the British Journal of Midwifery is now being
> hosted on a new site,
> intermid.co.uk, which is already up and running, and guess what,
> the British
> Journal of Midwifery will no longer be available on internurse.com
> from2007.
>
> Whilst there is an introductory offer until the 31st January 2007
> whichenables subscribers to subscribe to both resources at a
> special price of
> £5242.50 for 2007, once that offer has expired subscribers will
> have to find
> an extra £1700 + VAT in order that their midwives can access the
> BritishJournal of Midwifery on the new site.
>
> We are extremely concerned here at the University of Hertfordshire
> that this
> journal is going to be removed from internurse.com at the end of
> this year,
> and that in order to continue to access the electronic version of the
> British Journal of Midwifery we are going to have to find
> additional funds
> to support it.
>
> We are also concerned that other journals could be peeled off the
> internurse.com service onto other sites in the future that will
> requireadditional funding be found.
>
> There are several other MA Healthcare Ltd journals, which are now
> availableas online only, but which aren't available in either
> internurse.com or
> intermid.co.uk, but only through separate sites. In each of theses
> cases the
> cost of the journal online has risen considerably over what the
> journal cost
> in paper e.g. Hospital Medicine now costs us over £1500 per year
> for online
> access whereas the print used to cost about £300 e.g.
> International Journal
> of Therapy and Rehabilitation currently costs us £300 in print,
> but the
> publisher wants £1500 for online access. Whilst we could just
> about justify
> moving Hospital Medicine to online only, we can't justify moving
> the more
> specialised International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation to
> onlineonly.
>
> Do others out there have concerns about the splitting off of
> journals from
> existing sites at an extra cost and rampant inflation in the price of
> journals that move to online only?
>
> As one of my colleagues has just said "they've got us over a
> barrel" with
> this title.
>
> Maybe we should just go back to print!
>
> Do others share our concern at this?
>
> Cheers
> Lesley
>
>
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> Learning and Information Services
> University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB
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