Well 'clarifying' never quite works does it!
Since sending the email, which was based on information given to me by
'phone by a Wiley customer service person this morning, I've found a letter
which leads me to think (but is not entirely clear!) that the basic print +
e-access price only includes 1 user as you say.
Even more reason for some kind person to create some sort of central
independent CLEAR up-to-date source of this type of info. for us all - a
pipe-dream, I suppose.
On understanding the Enhanced Access Licence, I'm afraid it's beyond me (at
least, with the limited time I have to think about such things!)
Thanks, Bernd-Christoph, for your detailed reply.
Sandra Morris
Electronic Information Development Officer
Hugh Owen Library
Information Services,
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Penglais Campus,
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DZ
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Subject: Re: Wiley Interscience ejournals
Dear Sandra Morris,
you wrote
> (...)
> Here's some good news, some bad news and some even more confusing news:
> Currently we have free e-access to all back years that are available
> electronically of all titles that we subscribe to in print, with 1
> simultaneous user.
> From 2002, they are charging 5% extra for e-access. We are cancelling
print
> sub for some titles; renewing print only for some titles, and renewing
print
> and e-access for some other titles. For the latter, we will get unlimited
> user access, so shouldn't get the above problem.
That is completely new for me. In fact, the 5% extra charge is for the
Basic Access License which only includes one simultaneous user per
journal. Or if you keep duplicate print subscriptions to a title and pay
the 5% extra charge for each subscription, you get n simultaneous
accesses for that title. At least that is what Wiley told me during
recent extensive consortia negotiations that I was engaged in.
> For those that we cancel
> completely or renew print only, we will continue to get e-access to all
> those years that we had e-access to when we had print sub., but only 1
> simultaneous user.
That is correct, with Wiley you have permanent access to journals for
the years that you subscribed.
> If we take out any new subscriptions for 2002 for print
> and e-access, this will not include access to any back years.
As far as I know they'll give you access to complete back files for all
titles which are ordered before Dec 31, 2001. Afterwards the policy you
described is in effect. But I have to check that again and it would be
useful if you could ask them to clarify.
> Clear?
For me, yes, but I have probably spending more time understanding the
pitfalls and hidden costs of Wiley's basic and (more so) the enhanced
license than most others. I still have to write it up for the newsletter
of serials pricing issues but at present I am just too busy with other
things. (However, if there are any questions about that, I am happy to
answer them.)
If you have a written statement from Wiley that unlimited access is
given for current print subscriptions which you renew as print + online
please pass it forward to the list or quote from it. Until now,
unlimited access was only possible if you took out an enhanced access
license, and Wiley did not inform me that they changed this. (But it
would not have been the first time that Wiley does not pass on crucial
information to me.)
Best wishes,
Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library
>
> This is no criticism of Wiley, who have been very helpful; just
clarifying.
>
> Sandra Morris
> Electronic Information Development Officer
> Hugh Owen Library
> Information Services,
> University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Penglais Campus,
> Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DZ
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> Extension: 1892 Phone: (01970) 621892 FAX: (01970) 622404
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