Simple thing is just not to subscribe.
The whole point of electronic access is to enable all our users to benefit from very often highly priced institutional subscriptions. Libraries have paid very heavily into the publisher coffers over the years for paper copies of journals that - if we are honest - many don't get heavily used. So if, publishers are now getting precious about institutional use of stuff we've paid for for years, then just don't subscribe.
I'd also be open to your your staff and students saying that the publisher is too restrictive for the money it wants your institution to pay. I'd also point out that the people to complain to is not the library, but the publisher. I might add that seeking personal membership may undermine the institutional stance.
A radical solution, but one publisher is feeling the heat through this approach, it shouldn't be restricted to just them.
It may be one step further to suggest that particular journal titles may not be looked at to publish papers in and that the institution may take a radical look at what journals their staff publish in. I have no idea if any research has been taken on in the academic sector on the amount of publisher research related to institutional subscription cost - not in that sector. Could be worth a look.
Regard
Andy
Andy Richardson
Library & E-Learning Lead
Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
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Subject: [lis-e-resources] Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention - and other titles from AACR
We are trying to get online access to the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, published by American Association for Cancer Research. Our subscription agent tells us the only way an Institution can buy it is as part of the Cancer Prevention Package, which we have duly paid up for. However, access seems to be via AACR's Prevention Portal at http://preventionportal.aacrjournals.org/ From here you can search for articles from all the titles in the package, arranged by topic, but cannot browse the individual issues. On the right hand side of the page are links to the individual journals, but if you try them, the recent content is unavailable, which would be very confusing to our readers. Has anyone found a way to link straight to the journal homepages for this package?
The additional frustration we have with this online-only package is that the publisher wants to restrict access to University-owned computers in the library building only, with IP recognition and no remote or proxy access. As a large number of our users have their own laptops which they prefer to use even when in the library this seems unnecessarily restrictive. Does any one have an opinion on publishers who impose such strict conditions?
Alison Baker
Library and Learning Centre
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 7XH
UK
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