Hi,
The answer is yes!
We have just signed an institutional license to Science and have just run
into a similar problem where one of our researchers wanted to access the
full text of an article of interest to him which he found doing an author
search on Science, however when he tried to access the full text he was
denied access. At first I thought that there was a problem with our
subscription, but I have since found that even though we have an
institutional license that does not entitle us to all the goodies offered by
Science - one of the those goodies is that Science Express articles i.e.
full text articles accepted for future publication are only available to
AAAS members. It just so happened that this researcher had found a Science
Express article. He will know better next time and so will I!!
The full breakdown of who is entitled to what can be found at the following
page:
http://www.sciencemag.org/subscriptions/access-chart.dtl
It does seem disappointing that having paid a hefty sum for an institutional
license that institutions are being restricted from having access to advance
publications. This is surely one of the benefits of online publications. It
certainly caused some disbelief from this particular researcher who having
found a highly relevant article by searching Science to then be denied
access. He now has to wait until the article is formerly published before he
can access it. This is certainly not what a researcher wants to hear. I
can't say that I was impressed either.
It does illustrate the increasing complexity in promoting institutional
subscriptions to our users, when there are such exclusions in what you can
expect to be able access.
Finally our researcher did of course have the opportunity to pay for the
article - a $5.00 charge, but he resented having to do so when his
institution had an institutional license.
Cheers
Lesley
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University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
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Subject: Does Science make differences between licensees?
Dear all,
Did you hear or know anything about that?
It unfortunately seems so that Science publishes online-only articles which
we cannot access, because we have an institutional license which allows us
to view, download and print the 1 to 1 version of the weekly printed Science
magazine. I think, some features (i.e. STKE or get informed via mail if a
special article will be cited in another one) are only allowed for special
individual subscribers to login with a personalized user-ID.
I didn't find out yet, if the publisher makes a difference between licensees
and if it would be possible for us to enhance our current license, or if our
account is not fully activated... I tried to contact the publisher and our
journal agent with this request and have no answer yet.
Regards,
Elgin Helen Jakisch
Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH
Sci. Inf. & Library Services, H 823
D-65926 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.: 069 / 305-13691 Fax : -81736
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