Nature Reviews

[Elizabeth Lorbeer <ELorbeer@rushu.rush.edu>]

Hello,

I was very disappointed in my correspondence with the publisher Nature
that they are not offering electronic access to academic institutions in
regards to their new titles: Nature Reviews Genetics, Nature Reviews
Molecular Cell Biology or Nature Reviews Neuroscience.  (Three separate
titles comprise Nature Reviews, each costing $816).  Only personal
subscriptions include free electronic access.  I find this outrageous!  
Furthermore, it makes no sense for a publisher to market a reviews journal
to academic libraries only accessible in print.

I hope others will voice their concern to customer service.

Sincerely,
Liz Lorbeer, Collection Development Librarian
Library of Rush University, Chicago IL
Elorbeer@rushu.rush.edu

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Sent:	Friday, June 23, 2000 3:08 PM
To:	'ELorbeer@rushu.rush.edu'
Subject:	FW: An academic subscription to Nature Reviews

Dear Colleague:

Each review is $816.  All three review journals are separate magazines.  
We currently do not have an on line policy for institutions.  We have been
developing our policy and in the interim we have been providing free
access to institutions for our current issues.  Therefore, the answer is
at this time, we are not offering on-line access to the new review
journals.  When we get closer to the launch date we hope to have a policy
set up. Please contact us if you have any further questions.

Thank you.
Sincerely,
Customer Service