They may ask for it: but if my budget doesn't allow it, they can't have it.
Is anyone else getting increasingly high blood pressure at the sheer greed of these companies? It's far cheaper to push it out electronically than to print.
I'm going to find a nice hard brick wall: the relief when I stop banging my head against it will be almost enjoyable.....
Zena Woodley B.A.(Joint Hons), MCLIP
Library Resources Manager
The Warner Library
Broomfield Hospital
Chelmsford CM1 7ET
T: 01245-514310
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From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of [Arpita] [Banerjee]
Sent: 11 October 2006 10:57
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [LIS-MEDICAL] MA HealthCare Ltd - British Journal of Midwifery will no long er be part of internurse.com but is on intermid.co.uk at extra cost!
Are other NHS libraries being asked by their users for e-access in preference to print journals? In view of the hike in prices for online access, sudden changes in hosts and uncertain access to back issues, I wondered how other libraries are tackling this.
Arpita
Croydon Health Sciences Library
-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Woolgrove [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 October 2006 10:01
To: [log in to unmask]
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!
>I thought that people on LIS-MED might be interested to see an email
>sent
>out by my colleague to LIS-E-JOURNALS and join in the debate!
Linda
>-----Original Message-----
>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
>To: [log in to unmask]
>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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>Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant,
>Learning and Information Services
>University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB
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>email: [log in to unmask]
>phone: 01707 284662 fax: 01707 284666
>list owner: [log in to unmask]
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Linda Woolgrove
Faculty Information Consultant Health & Human Sciences
Learning & Information Services
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hatfield
Hertfordshire
AL10 9AB
Tel: 01707 285027
Email: [log in to unmask]
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