Journals hosted on Metapress have been moving to several different platforms over the last few months.     This last week we have had 3 of our titles move to Allen Press and we’ve received notifications about those.   Another title this week, Work, published by IOS Press moved but they are hosting it themselves.  Previously we had some move and I didn’t catch them until I started manually checking all of our subscribed titles  hosted on Metapress.     It’s just going to vary by publisher.   

Currently we still have one still working on Metapress which I haven’t heard from and 1 that I can’t figure out what it is doing J.  I really liked the customer support on Metapress so I am going to miss them, but I’m also glad I didn’t have a ton of titles there that I have to deal with changing platforms.

I have just checked a couple of MetaPress titles and find the links now refer to new platforms.
We have access, but I have received nothing from the publishers with any information at all as to new URLs, administrative log-in information, or the like.

Has anyone else received anything?

Barbara Swetman                                                bswetman@hamilton.edu
Acquisitions and Serials Librarian                        voice (315)859-4470
Library and Information Technology Services    fax (315)859-4578
Hamilton College                        
198 College Hill Rd.
Clinton, NY 13323

I received this message from Dawn Ingram at Metapress today:

 

The Metapress business has indeed been purchased by Atypon and all Metapress hosted sites are being phased out as we transition all of our publishers to new hosting platforms.  Announcements were made about this in April 2014, and we expect to have completed the transfer of all publishers to new hosts by the end of April 2015.

 

Please note that each publisher has a choice regarding their new platform.  While a number of them have chosen to transition to Atypon’s Literatum platform, others have chosen other services such as Allen Press’ Pinnacle platform.

 

The Metapress support staff is working hard to assist all of our publishers during this transition to try to make this as seamless as possible for all parties concerned.  All access that Metapress has in our database is being transferred to the new host for each publisher, along with information about the institution including IPs and administrators. Redirects from the existing Metapress site to the new location are being implemented, so that as soon as a publisher transitions to their new host, any links coming into their Metapress platform will automatically redirect to the new location. The administrator listed on the account should be notified by the new host in order to activate their own account on the new platform as we are not transferring any password information.  However, the library patrons will hopefully be unaffected as they will be redirected to the new host and recognized via IP and allowed access.

 

Usage data is not being transferred to the new host for any of our publishers, but the COUNTER reports will remain available from the www.metapress.com site for approximately 6 months.  Data for the previous month is usually posted by the 20^th of the following month. 

 

 

Jeanette L. Skwor

Serials Dept., Cofrin Library

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

2420 Nicolet Drive

Green Bay, WI 54311-7003

 

"Serials control is like trying to nail Jell-o to the wall." 

                                                      --Anonymous

 

 

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