From: "Moore, Catherine" <[log in to unmask]rg>

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 23:05:01 +0000

2017 Sep 18

Xiaotian

I heartily agree. A related problem is annual invoices that don’t indicate how far back the library has access for each of the journals billed.

 

Catherine

 

Catherine Moore | Library Manager | Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital | Health Sciences Library
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Subject: journal archive corners-cut with no publisher change

 

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/