Dear Lesley
Yes, we certainly do share your concern! I'm sure we all do.
We simply don't have the ability to magic-up the funds in our budgets to cover these additional costs, especially part-way through our financial year.
We have received no communication with regard to our Internurse sub so I'm really grateful to you for pointing this out!
I would love to be able to say that we will cancel it and take print only but that is simply not an option for us at the Open University.
If anyone does devise a plan of action then please let me know and we will happily join it!
Regards
Claire Grace
Resources Manager,
Open University Library
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
Tel: (01908) 653291
Fax:(01908) 692211
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Subject: MA HealthCare Ltd - British Journal of Midwifery will no longer be part of internurse.com but is on intermid.co.uk at extra cost!
Hi,
We have a current subscription to internurse.com where we've been able to
access the British Journal of Midwifery alongside other key nursing
journals.
We have just received a letter and a beautifully illustrated guide informing
us that the British Journal of Midwifery is now being hosted on a new site,
intermid.co.uk, which is already up and running, and guess what, the British
Journal of Midwifery will no longer be available on internurse.com from
2007.
Whilst there is an introductory offer until the 31st January 2007 which
enables subscribers to subscribe to both resources at a special price of
£5242.50 for 2007, once that offer has expired subscribers will have to find
an extra £1700 + VAT in order that their midwives can access the British
Journal of Midwifery on the new site.
We are extremely concerned here at the University of Hertfordshire that this
journal is going to be removed from internurse.com at the end of this year,
and that in order to continue to access the electronic version of the
British Journal of Midwifery we are going to have to find additional funds
to support it.
We are also concerned that other journals could be peeled off the
internurse.com service onto other sites in the future that will require
additional funding be found.
There are several other MA Healthcare Ltd journals, which are now available
as online only, but which aren't available in either internurse.com or
intermid.co.uk, but only through separate sites. In each of theses cases the
cost of the journal online has risen considerably over what the journal cost
in paper e.g. Hospital Medicine now costs us over £1500 per year for online
access whereas the print used to cost about £300 e.g. International Journal
of Therapy and Rehabilitation currently costs us £300 in print, but the
publisher wants £1500 for online access. Whilst we could just about justify
moving Hospital Medicine to online only, we can't justify moving the more
specialised International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation to online
only.
Do others out there have concerns about the splitting off of journals from
existing sites at an extra cost and rampant inflation in the price of
journals that move to online only?
As one of my colleagues has just said "they've got us over a barrel" with
this title.
Maybe we should just go back to print!
Do others share our concern at this?
Cheers
Lesley
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