Re the remote access and the springer.de site - we have had remote access
for ages, simply because we spotted that in the licence it was allowed, and
asked for an additional username and password not linked to our IP address.
Neither of these passwords work with the redirected site though.
Louise
-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Stone [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 02 July 2003 14:58
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Springer, what were you thinking?
I've just had a thought - do we get remote access now as we didn't
with the old link to springer.de - if so - is Athens working yet for
MetaPress?
Graham
Date sent: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:41:32 +0100
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From: Louise Cole <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Springer, what were you thinking?
To: [log in to unmask]
> Ours aren't either at Leeds! This is really odd ...
>
> Louise
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Satu Nieminen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 02 July 2003 14:41
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Springer, what were you thinking?
>
>
> 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/
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> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >-----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
>
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