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Re: High Performance Polymers (%key%)

CC: chminf-l, liblicense-l, lis-e-journals

Dear Ms Ferris

University libraries are very concerned about the integrity of electronic
archives and access to back issues. Therefore, it is very unfortunate,
that you don't say anything about the consequences of the selling of HPP
to SAGE. I would suggest that both SAGE and IOP in the next days inform
their customers how this transition is planned. I'd find it very
unconvenient (polite expression for unacceptable) if access through IOP
really ceased in mid march, with no transition period. This will probably
mean that many libraries will be cut of from access for quite some time
(the situation in especially complicated because they are available
through 6 intermediaries). To ensure that information will be distributed
broadly, I will forward my reply to liblicense-l, lis-e-journals and
chminf-l.

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards,
Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: High Performance Polymers (%key%)
Date: 1 Mar 2002 12:17:03 -0000
From: custserv@iop.org

I am writing to inform you that with effect from 1 January 2002, Institute
of Physics Publishing (IOPP) sold its rights to the journal High
Performance Polymers to Sage Publications Ltd.  The contract governing the
sale of this title has only recently been concluded and I regret that, as
a matter of commercial confidentiality, I was not at liberty to give you
advance notice.

The fulfilment of your print subscription to High Performance Polymers has
been transferred to Sage Publications Ltd (http://www.sagepub.co.uk).
Please note that online access to this journal through IOPP will cease to
be available from 15 March 2002 (http://www.iop.org/EJ/HPP). For
information on electronic access via Sage, please go to:

http://www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/ejournals.htm

and/or contact subscription@sagepub.co.uk

Yours sincerely

Miss Suzanne H Ferris
Senior Electronic Products  Helpdesk Administrator
Institute of Physics Publishing

custserv@iop.org
www.iop.org