From: Francesca Musina <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:30:54 +0100 Dear colleagues, thank you all for the replies and opinions on the issue submitted to your attention through the list. In this moment, thanks to the advice of a fellow librarian (thanks Stephanie!), we have asked Portico if we can get access through their platform as we are member of it and we are waiting for their answer. The question for us, of course, is not only an economic question (in this case it is not an economic question at all, as we are talking about few tens of €...); the important point of the question focuses, instead, on the possibility of ensuring access rights to subscribed content to our users. The transition to the electronic format has introduced the distinction of "content fee" and "access fee", where for content fee we mean a fee which provides certain entitlements to the journal issues for that publication year for the subscribed titles (i.e. including backfiles) and for these entitlements we are asked to pay a full price subscription. It seems to us that what Nature asks to subscribers is more like a “content fee”, but rights granted in return are more like “access fee” rights, aren’t they? Kind regards Francesca Musina Francesca Musina Università degli Studi di Torino Direzione Ricerca, Relazioni Internazionali, Biblioteche e Musei Biblioteca Digitale [log in to unmask]