Not happy about this at all. Bad timing and poor communication which is sadly what we have come to expect from this service. The price rises year on year for Internurse.com have also been worrying and if they start removing content without reflecting this in their pricing ...
We haven't heard anything yet about BJM moving; and the pricing quoted seems absolutely ridiculous for one title.
Louise
Louise Cole
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Health Sciences Library
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University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
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From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lesley Crawshaw
Sent: 10 October 2006 16:44
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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!
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 informing us 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 from 2007.
Whilst there is an introductory offer until the 31st January 2007 which enables 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 British Journal 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 require additional funding be found.
There are several other MA Healthcare Ltd journals, which are now available as 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 online only.
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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