I totally agree with you Lesley, it does need sorting out. Other
sites are able to distinguish between different types and levels of
access so I don't see why Metapress can't either. I find that if I
log in as the account administrator it reduces the number of
"freebie" titles that appear with the viewable publications filter
but it does not get rid of them entirely and it is of course of no
use to our users.
Cheers
Anna
At 14:38 07/07/2006, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We've been spending a lot of time recently checking access to some of our
>titles on MetaPress for work we are doing with Serials Solutions.
>
>One of the things that has really frustrated us over the years is that the
>glasses used by MetaPress often appear when all we have access to is one
>"freebie" issue. This means that the glasses can't be relied upon to tell us
>what we have access to and it means we have to go into every title to see if
>it is a real subscription or just a freebie issue or two.
>
>One might think that filtering the publications by viewable publications
>might filter these freebie issues out, but of course if doesn't.
>
>I can only imagine the confusion that this causes to our users if they
>happen to visit the MetaPress site and try and access what looks like a
>viewable publication and then find that all they can access is a single
>issue and not the whole collection.
>
>I have raised this (and a number of other issues) with MetaPress over the
>years - indeed I dug out an old email sent to MetaPress back in March 2003
>raising this exact issue. They replied saying "any title with viewable
>content (sample, subscription of free) will show up with the "eyeglasses"
>icon, and will also display when "Filter Viewable Items only" is selected. I
>have contacted our development team with your suggestion for altering the
>eyeglasses icon to differentiate between the various types of access
>available, and they are currently looking into this suggestion".
>
>It does appear that the suggestions to have more appropriate icons to
>differentiate between the different access arrangements was never taken
>forward my MetaPress. This is a real shame.
>
>Does anyone else out there find this confusing and want something doing
>about this or is it just us?
>
>Cheers
>Lesley
>
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