We have a problem with a subscription to this title. We started with a print only subscription at the beginning of 2009, but the publisher has withdrawn the print option in favour of electronic only delivery. Unfortunately it is username and password mediated for one individual only so that is of no use to us as an institution. I have queried the likelihood of having multiple users sharing the username and password, or IP authenticated access, but the publisher is not able/willing for this to happen.
Their solution is to offer to print out the new articles and send them to us every six months, but this wouldn't cover the whole journal, just the articles, and wouldn't be as frequent as the predicted 3 issues per year. The academic member of staff who was keen for us to subscribe to this journal is unhappy that access has disappeared.
Does anyone else subscribe to this title? Are you maintaining a subscription and how do you manage the access?
Regards
Jan
Jan Clark
Robinson Library
Newcastle University
Tel: 0191 222 3470
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