Hi,
We've been spending a lot of time recently checking access to some of our
titles on MetaPress for work we are doing with Serials Solutions.
One of the things that has really frustrated us over the years is that the
glasses used by MetaPress often appear when all we have access to is one
"freebie" issue. This means that the glasses can't be relied upon to tell us
what we have access to and it means we have to go into every title to see if
it is a real subscription or just a freebie issue or two.
One might think that filtering the publications by viewable publications
might filter these freebie issues out, but of course if doesn't.
I can only imagine the confusion that this causes to our users if they
happen to visit the MetaPress site and try and access what looks like a
viewable publication and then find that all they can access is a single
issue and not the whole collection.
I have raised this (and a number of other issues) with MetaPress over the
years - indeed I dug out an old email sent to MetaPress back in March 2003
raising this exact issue. They replied saying "any title with viewable
content (sample, subscription of free) will show up with the "eyeglasses"
icon, and will also display when "Filter Viewable Items only" is selected. I
have contacted our development team with your suggestion for altering the
eyeglasses icon to differentiate between the various types of access
available, and they are currently looking into this suggestion".
It does appear that the suggestions to have more appropriate icons to
differentiate between the different access arrangements was never taken
forward my MetaPress. This is a real shame.
Does anyone else out there find this confusing and want something doing
about this or is it just us?
Cheers
Lesley
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Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant
Learning and Information Services
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB
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