Barbara Merchant wrote :
" ...The huge cost demanded by the publishers of Nature and
the BMJ for online access, and the apparent unending chaos
over online access to journals in general is part and
parcel of the same issue. We need the leadership of our
professional bodies to act at all levels. We have shown how
effective we are when we unite behind them ..."
I'm not directly concerned with the payment for, or
administration of, these 'rogue price' online journals such
as Nature and BMJ, but I'd suggest that someone who is (and
has ways of contacting those publishers directly) might
email them to suggest they look at the discussion under
'Nature ...' in the February 2001 section of the
LIS-E-JOURNALS archive on JISCMAIL.
At :
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/lis-e-journals.html
One correspondent said that individual complaints were
ignored. Well, it might be more effective for the
publishers to see the range (and agreement) of Library
customers who think it's an untenable strategy ?
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