John,
I appreciate the problems that these sorts of timescales create for the
community and sympathise with them, but they are driven by CHEST, not
ourselves.
Terry
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, J.W.T.Smith wrote:
>
> Terry,
>
> On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Terry Morrow wrote:
>
> > New INSPEC service from BIDS and SilverPlatter
> > ----------------------------------------------
>
> > CHEST
> > -----
> > CHEST expects to finalise an agreement with IEE for Inspec within the
> > next few weeks, and for the agreement to start on 1 September 1998.
>
> This is very nice but many (most?) Inspec CD-ROM users will have already
> paid for next years subscription so even if this were temping in terms of
> price (which it isn't as we only need the Computing/Electronics subset) we
> still couldn't take advantage of the offer until next year (so losing the
> discount).
>
> Decisions on services that cost 9-10K are not made two weeks ahead.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith,
> University of Kent at Canterbury.
>
>
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