Dear Bernd-Christoph
I have been in close contact with other Librarians who have kindly given their feedback on Informaworld's display of old and new titles.
We are currently in the process of resolving the issue, and I will get a progress report in the new year.
I hope to be able to give you some positive news shortly. Apologies for the inconvenience in the meantime.
Wishing you a merry Christmas and best wishes for 2008.
Kind regards
Ashleigh
Ashleigh Bell
Journals Sales Director
Taylor and Francis Group
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Subject: Electronic Journal title changes "on the fly" - why it is a bad idea
Does InformaWorld believe it's a good strategy to change a journals
title on the fly, without any announcement on the homepage, and
with all the citation confusion generated by that?
Example:
Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine, now apparently
Informatics for Health and Social Care
If I download articles from your website in pdf format, it automatically
gets appended a cover page at the top that says from where it was
downloaded and provides a full citation to be used by authors.
However, if I look at the actual article, it still carries the old title on
every page. The HTML Version of course carries only the new title.
Therefore people will start to cite these articles under completely
different journal names, depending on whether they cite from the
print version or the online version.
This will certainly their ISI impact factor (if they have one), also
it might rightly earn them at least a special mention among the
ALCTS worst serials title change of the year awards.
Best regards and happy Christmas,
Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library
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