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Dear Lesley and Peter, With regards your recent queries relating to Contemporary Economic Policy and Economic Inquiry: Oxford Journals regrets that as of 31 December 2006, we are not permitted to grant access to the digitised archive of these two journals. The Western Economic Association International (WEAI) have transferred the publishing rights to Contemporary Economic Policy and Economic Inquiry from Oxford Journals to Blackwell Publishing as of 1 January 2007. We are still in negotiation with the WEAI, and currently await a decision from them on the ongoing arrangements for access to the digitised archive of their journals. A further announcement will be made as soon as possible. We apologise that this issue has not yet been resolved, and will inform customers of changes to the digital archive as soon as they are confirmed. In addition we no longer have rights to maintain the online service for current content for Contemporary Economic Policy and Economic Inquiry from 31 December 2006. Electronic files were made available to WEAI and Blackwell in 2006 to continue the provision of online content in 2007. We were not notified by WEAI or Blackwell that the online versions would not be available by 1 Jan 07. Please note that no other titles have transferred from Oxford Journals for 2007. We have taken several steps to ensure the stability of the Oxford Journals digital archive for our customers. With the exception of the WEAI titles, all other journals included in the Oxford Journals digital archive are contracted to perpetual archiving, to ensure that customers continue to have access to content they have paid for in the future. We will ensure further information regarding access to backfiles for Contemporary Economic Policy and Economic Inquiry is made available as soon as possible. Please accept our apologies for this inconvenience. Kind regards Mithu Mithu Mukherjee | Communications Manager Oxford Journals | Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street | Oxford | OX2 6DP +44 (0)1865 354471 [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 Liam Earney Sent: 05 February 2007 11:26 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Now You See It Now You Don't - Where Have the Backfiles and Archives of Contemporary Economic Policy and Economic Inquiry Gone? Dear Lesley, Peter et al, With regard to the removal of Contemporary Economic Policy and Economic Enquiry from the OUP Journal Archive. On behalf of JISC Collections I would like to apologise for not only the inconvenience this matter is causing but also the lack of prior communication. JISC Collections has been pursuing this matter with OUP since it was first brought to our attention on Friday evening. As soon as is possible we will provide a full update to this list. Regards, Liam Earney Collections Team Manager JISC Collections Brettenham House Lancaster Place London WC2E 7EN Tel: 0207 240 9748 Mob: 07817 030 934 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: www.jisc-collections.ac.uk -----Original Message----- From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter King Sent: 05 February 2007 07:52 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Now You See It Now You Don't - Where Have the Backfiles and Archives of Contemporary Economic Policy and Economic Inquiry Gone? Dear Lesley Thanks for telling us about this. It looks like bad news for anybody moving towards a general policy of disposing of printed back issues where online versions are available. I trust that JISC, OUP and Blackwell will respond speedily. Best wishes Peter King --On 02 February 2007 17:23 +0000 Lesley Crawshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi, > > We used to have access to the full online content (the current and the > archives) for the following two titles, Contemporary Economic Policy and > Economic Inquiry. We had access to the digital archives of these two > titles as part of the JISC Agreement with OUP dated 6th June 2006 and we > had access to the current content from 1996 to 2006, or at least we > thought we had! > > From 2007 these two titles were taken over by Blackwell Publishing however > at present there is only 2007 content on Blackwell Synergy for both of > these titles. So where is the pre-1996 content and 1997-2006 content for > these two titles? > > This raises several issues (I am sure there are many more): > 1. There is no information on the Oxford Journals site about these titles > leaving the archive - are there others titles that have left? Oxford > Journals have announced the newcomers, but haven't mentioned any leaving! > 2. Should the JISC/OUP agreement not have provided some guarantee about > the stability of the archive? Is that not one of the points of such an > agreement/license? > 3. Where is the missing content? > 4. Why was content removed off the Oxford Journals site before it had > appeared on the Blackwell Synergy site? > 5. Why has there be no notification to interested parties by any of the > parties involved in this? > > What a year 2007 is turning out to be and it's only the 2nd February. > > Cheers > Lesley > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant, > Learning and Information Services > University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > email: [log in to unmask] > phone: 01707 284662 fax: 01707 284666 > list owner: [log in to unmask] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ************* Dr Peter King Director of Library Services University of Bristol Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TJ, United Kingdom. telephone: +44 (0)117 928 8005 fax: +44 (0)117 925 5334 email: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anything in this message which does not clearly relate to the official work of the sender's organisation shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by that organisation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------