From: Dominic Benson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:38:31 +0000

Good point, Xiaotian Chen. I am currently chasing up whether access to the
sister title, Perceptual and Motor Skills (and its former titles) will be
granted following its transfer from Ammons Scientific to SAGE this year. At
this stage it looks like SAGE was simply unaware of Ammons’ policy to
bundle in “free” access to the back file as part of the subscription. It
was a similar story with British Journal of Occupational Therapy. We just
grin and bear it as we make steeper and steeper cuts.



Kind regards,



*Dom Benson*

E-resources Librarian, Library, Information Services

Brunel University London *|* *T* +44(0)1895 266143 <+44%201895%20266143>




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From: Xiaotian Chen <[log in to unmask]>

Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:28:43 -0500

Journal title: Psychological Reports (0033-2941)



Publisher: Sage



Other info: subscription not through a package, lost archives of 44 years
(1955-1998) with no notification



We all see loss of archives sometimes due to journal's ownership change or
package change, but this one is outstanding, because my library started
subscription with Sage years ago and Sage still owns it.  This journal is
not part of a package deal.  My library has 2 Sage packages (One Premier
package and one back file package), but this journal is not on the package,
but rather, is through individual title subscription.



Years ago I set up in our OpenURL link resolver that our access is from
1955 (vol 1, no 1) to present.  But today, a user reported that a request
for a 1976 article was denied.  I had a look and realized that our access
now starts from 1999. That's loss of 44 years of archive.



Should there be a movement to stop publishers from doing this?

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Xiaotian Chen
Electronic Services Librarian / Associate Professor
Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, USA.  1-309-677-2839
http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~chen/