Hi,
I wanted to follow up on the email I sent in reponse to Jan Schoones email
on Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics recent move to NPG with a
correction and some additional information just in case this affects any of
you.
I had assumed from the press release from NPG - link below - that there
weren't any exceptions to opening of society and academic archives published
prior to January 2003. However, I since found out that there are currently
two exceptions that weren't mentioned in the press release - they are
British Journal of Cancer and Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
As our current license with NPG only specified that for this title we only
had access to the access to the "current year and four years prior to the
commencement date of the license" and I had thought (mistakingly that the
pre-2003 backfiles were free) I then went back to NPG and asked if we could
have our license amended to incorporate our prior rights of access back to
1995 when this subscription of ours was published by Elsevier. NPG have now
provided me with an addendum incorporating rights back to 1995.
I have queried further with NPG the way the transfer was handled, but they
feel that they notified the subscriber community to the best of their
ability and that it is "customary that content moves when a journal moves".
Cheers
Lesley
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lesley Crawshaw [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 12 February 2007 16:31
To: 'An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group'
Subject: RE: Now You See It Now You Don't - Where are my Backfiles and
Archival rights to Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Hi,
We have also been affected by this transfer, as this journal is a
subscription of ours, which we moved to online only many years ago as part
of our ScienceDirect license. On ScienceDirect we have always had access
back to 1995. We were aware that this journal was moving to NPG from 2007
and made sure it was added to our NPG site license from 2007. This title is
no longer part of our ScienceDirect license for 2007.
There are a number of issues re: this transfer:
1. The content was removed from ScienceDirect right at the beginning of
January 2007 - should there not have been some kind of gracing period to
give subscribers the time to update their catalogue/catalogue updating
services such as SerialsSolutions?
2. There is still no redirect in place from ScienceDirect to the new site on
NPG
3. Our license with NPG for this journal only gives us access to the current
year and four years prior to the commencement date of the license! However
because the online archives of its society and academic journals for all
online content published prior to January 2003 has now been opened up (see
http://www.nature.com/press_releases/NPG_opens_archives.pdf) we are not sure
what rights we would have had to the 1995-2002 archives of this title
without these archives been freely available. Should those rights not have
transferred from Elsevier to NPG when the journal moved publisher at the
start of this year? We also haven't really had time to make a case for these
rights with NPG yet!
4. Elsevier did notify customers through their Customized Title
Communication Q4 on the 06/12/06, however it just said the title would be
transferring to NPG from 2007, it didn't say that all the online content
would be transferring.
5. Did Elsevier provide NPG with a list of former subscribers to this title,
including subscribers that had moved all their subscriptions to an e-only
license?
6. Why did NPG not offer free access to this title for a period to allow
time for subscribers to make the necessary arrangements for this title?
One of the major things that concern me about all of these types of
transfers is just what is a license worth if it doesn't protect licensees
against the removal of their licensed material?
Yet another poorly organized journal transfer to add to the list.
Cheers
Lesley
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-----Original Message-----
From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jan Schoones
Sent: 12 February 2007 14:46
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Now You See It Now You Don't - Where are my Backfiles and
Archival rights to Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Dear All,
I would like to add a similar problem: as of 2007, the journal Clinical
Pharmacology and Therapeutics changed from Elsevier to Nature PG. We license
the "freedom collection" of Elsevier's ScienceDirect, and we licensed also
the archival backfiles for this collection. Clinical Pharmacology and
Therapeutics is part of both licences. Based on the
archival-backfiles-licence, I discarded the paper edition of this core title
in 2006.
With no communication at all to me (a client), the complete archives have
abruptle disappeared from ScienceDirect. Access to the new publisher is out
of the question (it would take a new subscription which would in fact be a
double payment for the same journal).
I am curious what Elsevier has to say about this.
Cordially,
Jan
J.W. Schoones, MA
Walaeus Library
Collection Development Coordinator
Leiden University Medical Center
C1-Q
PO Box 9600
2300 RC Leiden
The Netherlands
31-71-5262182
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-----Original Message-----
From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lesley Crawshaw
Sent: vrijdag 9 februari 2007 16:40
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Subject: Re: Now You See It Now You Don't - Where Have the Backfiles and
Archives of Contemporary Economic Policy and Economic Inquiry Gone?
Hi,
Now that I've seen OUP's and Blackwell's response to this transfer fiasco I
would like to make the following comments.
First of all I am glad that the 2000-2006 content for the two titles in
question has now been reinstated on the Oxford Journals site, although why
can't the pre-1996 archive and the 1997-1999 backfiles also be reinstated?
This still leaves me wondering why interim arrangements had not
automatically been put in place for this transfer. These should have
included the content remaining on the Oxford Journals site for a reasonable
period to allow time not only for the file conversion that needs to take
place before the content can be loaded on Synergy, but also to allow time
for librarians to make the changes on their own systems. We now find
ourselves in the worst of all positions where there is still significant
content unavailable. Since Blackwell Publishing and Oxford Journals are well
aware of the problems that journal transfers cause and are both members of
the UKSG's Transfer Group shouldn't they have known better and made
arrangements to avoid the problems this is now causing? Should they not have
been leading the way in demonstrating good practice to the rest of the
publishing community? The whole episode has an air of sloppiness, lack of
planning and professionalism and a total lack of consideration for the
subscribers and end users of these resources. Surely the Western Economic
Association International (WEAI) should also have been aware of the need for
interim arrangement during this transfer?
Finally what about compensation for subscribers for the period that access
was not provided to paid for content?
Cheers
Lesley
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Services University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB
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