I'm very confused by it all. We have partial access icons
next to titles where we have full access right back to
Volume 1. Not very helpful.
Catrin
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:47:38 +0100 Lesley Crawshaw
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> 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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