As territory manager for Kluwer Law International, I can state that we
have recently cancelled our contract with some aggregated databases
including Ebsco, and as such our full text journals are no longer being
updated within certain databases.
Thedecision concerning the continued carryoing of what might be termed
the original backfiles etc, is a matter of the contract between the
aggregator and the pubilsher. Some contracts may call for the exclusion
of previous material, others may not.
regards
Peter Reardon
Territory Manager
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Sent: 14 February 2006 14:16
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Subject: Re: E-Journal access through full text databases
We subscribe to two full text databases via Ebsco - Academic Search
Elite and Business Source Premier, to ABI Inform via Proquest and to
Expanded Academic via Infotrac.
We have cancelled some (a very small percentage so far) subscriptions to
journals that are included in those databases, but we have not discarded
the print archives. We are aware of the risk that the publisher could
withdraw content, but so far this has not affected any of these titles.
If it did we would have to consider alternative ways of obtaining
access.
Olwyn Reynard
Olwyn Reynard, Electronic Resources Librarian, Kimberlin Library, De
Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH Tel 0116 2577865
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From: Anna Sale [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 14 February 2006 12:34
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Subject: E-Journal access through full text databases
Dear All,
Like a lot of academic institutions we are moving where available to
e-only access for journals and removing long archival runs of print
journals from the shelves where archival access is available online. For
a few of the print journals we subscribe to this archival and current
online access is available through full text databases such as Infotrac.
Our concern in cancelling the print with regards to these titles is the
reliability of continued access to titles through full text databases. I
would be very interested to know if any other institutions have explored
this and as a result have cancelled their current print subscriptions,
moved print archives to storage or even discarded their print archives
on the based of e-access through a full text database?
Many thanks in advance
Anna Sale
Anna Sale
Electronic Resources and Metadata Team Leader
Information Services Division
University of Salford
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