Further to Lesley's message, this is to confirm that OECD's standard policy
is to grace electronic access for three months at the end of any
subscription period. This includes all e-journals from OECD and any part of
the SourceOECD service delivering access to our statistical databases and
e-book collections. OECD electronic journals are available via our own
portal, SourceOECD, and via all the main aggregators such as Ingenta, Ebsco,
Swets etc. If you have any problems accessing our electronic publications do
please get in touch.
yours sincerely,
Toby Green
Head of Marketing
OECD Publications
Public Affairs and Communications Directorate
http://www.oecd.org/Bookshop
http://www.SourceOECD.org
http://www.oecd.org/OECDdirect
+33 1 45 24 94 15 (phone)/ 53 (fax)
2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France
-----Original Message-----
From: Lesley Crawshaw [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 5:32 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Grace Periods and Electronic Access to Journals
Hi,
Happy New Year Everybody!
The advent of grace periods from publishers has provided a safety net
for many institutions in recent years where there are problems with
renewals etc.. This year these grace periods are even more important for
us because of the problems with our major agent, Divine and the fact
that once again we find ourselves "piggy in the middle". However, I
hadn't realised until yesterday that the grace periods from some
publishers didn't always extend to the electronic version.
Yesterday a student doing work for his project informed me that we no
longer had access to the American Journal of Sports Medicine and that
our access had expired on the 31/12/02. I contacted the publisher, or
rather the agent (ebsco.com) who handled their subscriptions and was
told that because they hadn't received payment from our agent, Divine,
that our online access had been terminated, but that they were going to
grace us the paper issues of this journal. Now to be honest I would
rather the electronic was graced than the paper version. However, how
many of our users now are prepared to leave the comfort of the
workstation and venture onto the library's shelves.
I then began checking our access to 2003 of another publisher's
journals, this time ADIS, and found that we no longer had access to the
2003 issues of our 4 subscriptions via ingenta. I again contacted the
publisher and was told that they didn't grace the electronic issues, but
only the paper version. As two of these journals were recently purchased
to support students doing a distance learning course in
Pharmacovigilence, the fact that the publisher is gracing the paper
journal is unhelpful to say the least. Again all our 4 subscriptions to
ADIS journals are handled by Divine.
What we need are consistent grace periods otherwise this is another area
of potential confusion for those of us trying to maintain access to our
ejournals from year to year. Surely the grace period must apply to both
the print and electronic versions of the journal, as in many cases we
are paying extra for the priviledge of online access.
It maybe that these two publishers are exceptions to the rule, but this
did come as a surprise to me. Has anybody else out there found
themselves in a similar position - it is after all only 2 days into the
New Year.
It also raised another issue about whether "aggregators" like ingenta
are able to provide grace periods for journals they provide access to.
Cheers
Lesley
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University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
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