Dear Lesley
Thanks for telling us about this. It looks like bad news for anybody
moving towards a general policy of disposing of printed back issues where
online versions are available. I trust that JISC, OUP and Blackwell will
respond speedily.
Best wishes
Peter King
--On 02 February 2007 17:23 +0000 Lesley Crawshaw
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> Hi,
>
> We used to have access to the full online content (the current and the
> archives) for the following two titles, Contemporary Economic Policy and
> Economic Inquiry. We had access to the digital archives of these two
> titles as part of the JISC Agreement with OUP dated 6th June 2006 and we
> had access to the current content from 1996 to 2006, or at least we
> thought we had!
>
> From 2007 these two titles were taken over by Blackwell Publishing however
> at present there is only 2007 content on Blackwell Synergy for both of
> these titles. So where is the pre-1996 content and 1997-2006 content for
> these two titles?
>
> This raises several issues (I am sure there are many more):
> 1. There is no information on the Oxford Journals site about these titles
> leaving the archive - are there others titles that have left? Oxford
> Journals have announced the newcomers, but haven't mentioned any leaving!
> 2. Should the JISC/OUP agreement not have provided some guarantee about
> the stability of the archive? Is that not one of the points of such an
> agreement/license?
> 3. Where is the missing content?
> 4. Why was content removed off the Oxford Journals site before it had
> appeared on the Blackwell Synergy site?
> 5. Why has there be no notification to interested parties by any of the
> parties involved in this?
>
> What a year 2007 is turning out to be and it's only the 2nd February.
>
> Cheers
> Lesley
>
>
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