Louise et al,
My understanding is that you need to contact your Ovid sales rep to get a
quote for online access to either:
- your chosen titles
- a Custom 100 collection
- their High Impact collection, or
- their complete collection
I suspect that in 2004 you'll either have print-only or online-only
subscriptions to LWW journals - both isn't affordable in our experience.
Last year we went for online-only subscriptions to a Custom 100 collection
which was all well and good until we found out that 4 of our 100 are moving
to new publishers in 2004. But that's a risk with any publisher-based
collection I guess.
It's somewhat ironic that we try to persuade editors to move their journals
away from big commercial publishers, whilst at the same time having to tie
ourselves to online collections from big commercial publishers as the only
way to give our users the wide range of online titles that they need. Then
when a journal does move to a 'better' publisher we either lose access to
it or have to find the money to subscribe to it separately.
Terry Bucknell
Electronic Resources Manager
Harold Cohen Library
University of Liverpool
PO Box 123 Liverpool L69 3DA
Tel: +44 (0)151 794 5408 Fax: +44 (0)151 794 5417
Email: [log in to unmask]
--On 17 October 2003 12:02 +0100 Louise Cole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I understand that for 2004 Lippincott are unlikely to keep access to their
> journals available through any platform but Ovid? Does anyone have more
> info on what LWW is planning for those of us who currently access their
> journals through their own site?
>
> thanks
> Louise
>
> Louise Cole
> Electronic Resources Team Leader
> Health Sciences Library
> University of Leeds
> LS2 9JT
>
> tel. 0113 34 35502
> fax. 0113 34 34381
> email: [log in to unmask]
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