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With respect to the FTE count: what do Nature Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Medicine, Neuroscience, Structural Biology and the corresponding Review Journals have to do with the "Physical Sciences" anyway? This sure will lead into problems with universities which have a small life science department but are strong in Physical Sciences. Perpetual access to licensed content continues to be excluded, according to the present license summaries (Nature itself may be an exception, the license summary remains silent about that). So I guess there will be ample need for further negotiations (for quite some time) and neither we nor the sales offices of Nature will run out of work. Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library Lesley Crawshaw wrote: > > Hi, > > I too welcome Nature Publishing Group's decision to provide access to the > full online content of their journals rather than have to rely on unwanted > paper subscriptions. It was a very strange policy indeed where we paid large > amounts of money for only part of the content under the previous license > conditions. > > However, whilst the price for Nature has certainly come down, for my > institution at least, which I welcome I can't yet comment fully on their new > pricing policy, until I am able to get the full costs of subscribing to the > whole family, which is what we originally wanted to do if the price was > right. Without that information it is impossible to say whether this is a > step forward or two steps back. The information that was on the Nature web > site relating to the pricing of the monthlies and reviews under the new > licensing policy has now been removed as it was incorrect. I am glad about > that as it suggested that the whole package was more expensive than > previously for my institution. I guess Nature are still working everything > out! I've been told by Nature that this information won't be available till > Tuesday. > > Other issues like perpetual access to subscribed content remain unresolved > for the moment. Also, what constitutes Life and Physical Sciences? > > Cheers > Lesley > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant, LIS, > University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > phone: 01707 284662 fax: 01707 284666 > web: http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/subjects/natsci/ejournals/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~