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Hi Lesley There are a few aspects of Blackwell/Wiley that are causing us a lot of staff time at the moment: a. Sorting out what we have rights to. This is not helped by the fact that the list for 2008 NESLI2 collection in SerialsSolutions is incorrect ... and then there are all the historical rights! Wiley's title list for NESLi2 has not changed since 2006. b. The fact that both sites seem to be allowing access to more content than we thought/know we have access to! c. No information on how one main difference between Synergy and Interscience will be dealt with after the transfer of titles - namely, that Wiley splits title changes and Blackwell doesn't, instead putting all articles under the most recent title. I'm now at the point of having to make as good an estimate as I can and then checking again after the 1st July. I hope the new interface can allow us to download more accurate information on holdings than has been previously possible. Thanks Louise Louise Cole Senior Information Advisor (Collections) Nightingale Centre, Kingston Hill Campus Kingston University Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT2 7LB Email [log in to unmask] Telephone 020 8417 5383 Fax 020 8417 5312 Joint 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 Lesley Crawshaw Sent: 24 June 2008 16:47 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [LIS-E-JOURNALS] Wiley - Blackwell Subscribed Title Lists Hi Maureen, Your email prompted me to look at the institutional subscribed holdings file I downloaded yesterday (which I thought would provide proof of our historical and current rights to content on Synergy if there were any problems with the merger of Blackwell Publishing titles onto Wiley InterScience - even the "best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry"). As we've been in a NESLi2 deal with Blackwell Science from 1999-2001 and one with Blackwell Publishers from 2000-2001 when they both became Blackwell Publishing and have had a NESLi2 agreement with that publisher ever since, plus we also have inherited rights from the original HEFCE SLI from 1996-1998 as well as our "core" subscriptions some of which fall outside the NESLi2 agreements, it's very important that we have some documentation spelling out the totality of these rights. I am sure I'm not alone in this desire. Naively I thought that the institutional subscribed holdings file would be the evidence that I needed. However, like you've already described the information is very confusing to say the least! Our list only has 980 titles but as you say several titles are listed more than once with different coverage periods and in some cases there are gaps in the coverage although we do have access from 1997 without any gaps . In some cases we've suddenly got a year of access missing in the middle of the online content. In some cases this content is not on Synergy any more and we haven't necessarily retained the rights according to the holdings file. There are also lots of titles - 424 - without any coverage at all. All I want to know is what is the totality of the rights we've inherited over many years? Can Wiley-Blackwell provide us with this information in a format that makes sense? Are others out their struggling to make sense of exactly what rights they have to Blackwell Publishing content? I hope this made some sense! 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 joint list owner: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System.