Thank you all for your replies - I'm relieved to see that I wasn't the only one surprised by this (it seems that there was an announcement, but before my time!). Thanks also for the helpful suggestions as to where else we can obtain the missing content, although I fear they are all beyond our means at the moment. But then again, since it's taken us this long to notice that the content was removed at the end of December, maybe we can live without it... all things for us to think on as we start working through renewals over the summer.
Thanks again for the collective wisdom,
Tom
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Sent: 07 May 2014 16:22
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Subject: [lis-e-resources] Economist & Economist Intelligence Unit content in EBSCO Business Source Complete
Good afternoon everyone,
We've just had an email from The Economist Group, telling us that we 'may be aware that all content from The Economist Group... has been removed from Ebsco Business Source databases', and asking if we'd like to meet up to discuss how we can continue to get access. It came as a surprise to me (although there's every chance that there was an announcement which I inadvertently deleted). I just tried to access a random title (Financial Services Industry Report: Australia), and then a few other titles of that ilk, via our catalogue got the following error message:
Error in HttpHandler
To begin a new session, please login again<http://search.ebscohost.com>.
Clicking 'login again' just takes me to EBSCO homepage.
Other non-Economist Group content in Business Source Complete seems to be working fine. Can I ask:
a. Are any of you good people out there of aware of this change (and if so, when/how were you told - I'd like to see if I can track down the email I clearly didn't read!)?
b. Are you doing anything about it?
Many thanks,
Tom
Tom Francis
Materials Acquisition
Hugh Owen Library
Penglais Campus
Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 3DZ
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