Hi Jo,
At present I can say I doubt that anyone would realise that there has been a
change of hosting, which I guess is good news. All our existing links have
continued to work without problems. However, I am hopeful that the change in
hosting of this service will lead to some improvements in the interface and
functionality of this service, both from a user and a librarian's
perspective. In particular it is not currently easy for our users to know
what journals they have access to on Extenza, as subscriptions are not
identified as being subscribed at the journal, issue and article level.
Since this functionality is available on other Atypon services, we can only
hope this will soon be available on Extenza.
One of the good things about the change was that it encouraged us to spend
some time checking that all our Extenza-hosted subscriptions were all up and
running as we expected. In the process we found out that rather than our
institution having one account as should be the case, we found we had
acquired multiple accounts. I believe this was a reflection on how our
accounts had originally been set up on Extenza, and nothing to do with the
change of platform. However, everything is now working fine and we now have
one account, thanks to the hard work of Vicky Newstead, of the Extenza
support team. In fact Extenza managed to identify 3 Inform journals to which
we had institutional online access, but which we weren't aware of until
then!
We also found out that Extenza is now ATHENS compliant, although we weren't
aware of any communication from Extenza to that effect. However, this is
publisher driven, so to get Extenza added to your list of ATHENS
authenticated resources you need to provide Extenza with your ATHENS prefix.
They will then contact ATHENS to get it added to your institutional list of
ATHENS resources.
I hope this is useful feedback.
Cheers
Lesley
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Subject: Extenza migration to Atypon
Our online journals are currently hosted by Atypon - until recently
Extenza-eps. As a small publisher we rely on our online host to provide
us with good service but from our point of view there have been problems
with the recent change of platform. We have raised several points with
Atypon however my current concern is that our customers are being
affected and we are not hearing about their frustration and they will
ultimately just cancel subscriptions this year.
I'd be interested to know how other publishers that have been caught up
in this change of owner have found Atypon's service and also how
librarians and end users are finding the new system.
Thanks for your time.
Jo Cheshire (Mrs)
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