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Hi again, Our links to http://link.springer.de are still not working. I hope whoever it was that fixed the links for the University of Hertfordshire will do so soon with all the other sites. Satu At 14:33 02/07/2003 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, > >Our links to http://link.springer.de/ are now working again and are >being redirected to the MetaPress site. It appears that someone from >Springer has taken notice of our comments and remedied the error in not >having these links redirected? The lack of advance warning about such >changes is just not acceptable at all. > >Can we now have information about just what we need to do with our >existing links or will redirection continue to work for ever more? > > >Cheers >Lesley > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant, >Learning and Information Services, >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/ejournal/ >list owner: [log in to unmask] >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >-----Original Message----- >From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group >[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Louise Cole >Sent: 02 July 2003 13:44 >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Springer, what were you thinking? > > >Hi all, > >Those of you who have links from your Springer journals to the German >server will be interested to know that all your individual titles links >will now be dead, and those which do manage to redirect will go to - the >wrong Metapress page! Not a Springer journal in sight. > >Those of you who have links from your Springer journals to the American >server will be further interested to know thatr all your individual >titles will be redirecting to a 'Springer-LINK' site which now has a >Metapress interface and seems (for the moment anyway) to allow access to >the same group of titles. Off-campus, who knows? > >We're fairly lucky at Leeds since we had URLs to both sites. But I >thought that Springer's new interface would run in parallel with the old >one for a while? and that redirects from springer.de would work. > >Anyone else been caught out? > >Louise > >Louise Cole >Electronic Resources Team Leader >Health Sciences Library >University of Leeds >Leeds LS2 9JT > >e-mail [log in to unmask] >tel 0113 343 5502 >fax 0113 343 4381 Ms Satu Nieminen Assistant Librarian School of Pharmacy 29/39 Brunswick Square Bloomsbury London WC1N 1AX Tel. 0207 753 5833 Fax 0207 753 5947