Hi all,
You may remember some publishers introducing rolling archives on their
e-journals, then abandoning the policy when it proved to be unpopular.
Another publisher has told us about its rolling archive policy.
INFORMS, on its recent move to Highwire, has now blocked access to 2001
issues and informed us 'they always had a 4 year archive policy, but
were unable to enforce it'.
Did anyone know about it?
My worry now is that the move to Highwire will mean subscribers lose two
years worth of archives as soon as the first 2007 issues appear on site
- 2002 articles are currently available. It might make sense to INFORMS
- but since they never let their subscribers know about the policy they
may find some complaints as the regular customers at various
institutions wonder where the 2001/2 content has gone.
The rolling archive is difficult to maintain and difficult to explain to
our customers.
INFORMS tell me they are putting together an archive product to sell to
the market ... Is this a trend we are going to start seeing from
publishers? I for one think this is a step backwards in e-access
provision.
Louise
Louise Cole
Electronic Resources Team Leader
Health Sciences Library
Level 7 Worsley Building
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
Tel: 0113 34 35502
Fax: 0113 34 34381
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