Re: Institutional Access to Lancet Online

[Kimberly Parker <kimberly.parker@yale.edu>]

Not that this helps your situation, but Lancet is also available via
Science Direct (Elsevier), which is how Yale University Library has access
to the online title.

--Kimberly Parker
Electronic Publishing & Collections Librarian

At 06:25 PM 2/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Here's a new and bizarre twist that our serials librarian has come across
>(her report follows).  This sounds like what Wiley was doing a couple of
>years ago (requiring endusers to register with the website even though the
>institution had a subscription).  But it's even more intrusive: Lancet is
>demanding name, mail address and email address.  Then the enduser must
>assign himself a username and password.
>
>A large number of complaints to Wiley put an end to the practice of
>requiring enduser registration.  I'm suggesting strongly that this
>practice, if we are indeed understanding it correctly, be protested loudly
>and directly to Lancet.  One question before I call London: Has anyone
>else received the same information as we have?
>
>Margo Coletti
>Medical Library Services Director
>Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
>330 Brookline Avenue
>Boston MA 02215