From: Ivy Anderson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:49:33 +0000 There was a dispute between Springer and the founding editor of K-Theory back in 2007, which resulted in the resignation of the editorial board and the founding of a new journal, Journal of K-Theory, published by Cambridge University Press. You can find some older news stories here http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=585 and here http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7156/full/448846b.html. K-Theory is listed with a "preserved" status in Portico, meaning that content should already be deposited in the archive, with post-cancellation rights (see http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/the-archive-content-access/content-in-the-archive/e-journals/k/title/asc). At least some of the K-theory papers seem to be on arXiv (an arXiv search for journal-ref: K-Theory yields 70 hits, but some of these are to the newer journal or to other journals). There is also a K-theory preprint server at http://www.math.uiuc.edu/K-theory/ (now closed and being migrated to arXiv I believe), although I don't know if the papers there include ones from the disputed Springer journal. This is an interesting object lesson in the vagaries of perpetual rights, the value of redundancy, and the role of the academy and trusted 3rd parties in ensuring long-term access to the scholarly literature. - Ivy Anderson California Digital Library -----Original Message----- From: "Lewis, Ruth" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:33:09 +0000 Does anyone have any information about K-theory [ISSN 0920-3036 0920-2036 ] (formerly on Springer site but completely gone for over a month now). I have emailed Springer (no response), CLOCKSS (checking on it) and Portico (no response). I recently got a report from SerialsSolutions that said: Our data team received the following information about the title in question; "K-Theory had to be removed from Springerlink due to a legal conflict". If you know what's going on or where this content might be available online, I would be grateful for the information. Thank you. Ruth Lewis, Librarian Biology, Math, History of Science-Medicine-Technology Scholarly Communications Washington University in St. Louis [log in to unmask]