Have you ever heard of “Perpetual access? It
might be an issue for us if we discontinue online subscriptions in the future. We
have a few Ingenta subscriptions too don’t we? Maybe those links will not work
soon.
Mike Saunders,
Serials Officer,
National Gallery of
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From:
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012
2:31 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Wiley
From:
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012
11:53 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Wiley
I
receive TESOL Quarterly online and it is a very important title for our
programs. Recently it switched from Ingenta to Wiley. After quite a bit of
wrangling with Wiley to set up the online access to it I discovered that I was
missing 13 years of coverage that I had previously had with Ingenta. After a
long wait for a reply from them, this is what I heard today:
“I have checked and can confirm that online access to this
journal is available only at Wiley Online Library.
All subscribers with online
access to any journal are entitled
to the following benefits:
- Archival access to content dating back 5 years
during the subscription year 2011 (i.e. access
to content from 2007 to 2011 during the subscription year 2011)
- Perpetual access to
the paid-for year (i.e. maintain access
to 2011 content if subscription ceases in 2012)
Your online access content is only
available as far back as 2007.
The access to back volumes now have to be
purchased They are no longer available free of charge as was with the
previous publisher and Ingenta.”
Has anyone else encountered this with
Wiley? Are you paying for the back issues?
Not with Wiley, but
I’ve been having a similar discussion with another
provider that took
over Ingenta-hosted titles.
My argument is:
Suppose my library, on the expectation of continued
access to the content
we had with Ingenta, had withdrawn our print
volumes for the
covered years?
You may answer, well,
you shouldn’t have done that! You lose!
To which I reply, I
guess we should have considered
the possibility that
our titles would be
taken over by some bad guy provider … which is kind
of what you are, if
you do this. If our access to the specified content was
already paid for, you
are making us pay twice for the same content.
Since you agreed to
take over these titles, you have a responsibility to
the subscribers, do
you not?
By the way, this
other provider has agreed to
provide access to the years
for which we can
provide proof of payment. That agreement is not all we
hoped for, since we
actually cannot provide proof of
payment for all the
years we feel we are
entitled to … but it’s a compromise, at least. SW
Susan Wishnetsky
Collection Management Librarian
Galter Health Sciences Library
Phone: 312-503-9351 | FAX
312-503-2678
E-mail: pasiphae@northwestern.edu
Pamela Contakos
Director of Libraries and Academic
Resources
SIT Study Abroad/SIT Graduate Institute,
programs of World Learning
Phone:+1 802 258-3356 | email: Pamela.Contakos@sit.edu
Skype:
pamela.contakos