Yes, we also fell foul of this. The penny dropped when Blackwell asked me if I was paying through Content Complete or Swets. I didn't think I had a choice. I cannot see any advantage to the publisher in this payment model since they end up with the same amount of money in the end. The disadvantage is entirely ours and I would urge Nesli2 to re-consider this model before next year.
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Sent: 19 January 2006 12:19
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Subject: Re: ordering NESLI2 deals via Content Complete - loss of access via SwetsWise
This almost happened to us until I was advised by my contact
at SwetsWise about ordering through Content Complete. Not
wanting to have to go through a similar scenario which Sandra
describes and also pay £1 per title to have our journals hosted
on SwetsWise (£748 I believe ) we decided to stick with Swets
and forgo the discount. Both the discount and charges from
Swets worked out around the same cost to us in any case so we
were stymied.
I would like to point out that this information is available for us
to read within the offer to NESLI2 (yes, I missed this initially)
but there is just so much to take in sometimes its hardly
surprising we get confused.
On 19 Jan 2006 at 12:03, s morris wrote:
Hello
Just to highlight yet another complication in the world of ejournals.
We ordered and paid for the Blackwell NESLI2 deal via Content Complete but
we now realise that we will not get online access to the 2006 onwards years
via our usual agent site Swetswise, unless we pay them £1 per title which
would negate all the discount. This of course causes us another nightmare to
edit our ejournals database/webpages and then try to explain to our
customers the reasoning! It was not a consequent complication that came to
mind during all the urgent complex cancellation/substitution deliberations
and ordering.
Did anyone else fall foul of this situation?
Sandra Morris
Electronic Information Development Officer
Subject Support & E-Library Team,
Information Services,
Hugh Owen Library,
University of Wales,
Aberystwyth,
Ceredigion, SY23 3DZ
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