Re: Nature Letter

[David Goodman <dgoodman@Princeton.EDU>]

Many of you will know how strongly I am opposed to Nature's current
policy, but I have also spoken to the company, and been assured by people
whom I trust, and am totally convinced, that this message is completely
erroneous, apparently given by a new staff member who didn't know what was
going on.

I sincerely hope that there will be a satisfactory resolution of the
problems with this journal, but, alas, this is not yet it.

Will those who may have posted the original message on other lists please
copy my reply.

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"Jonathan M. Lord" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:51:15 EST Kim Armstrong
> <kim_Armstrong@unc.edu> wrote:
> 
> # Colleagues:
> #
> # The Triangle Research Libraries Network has also written a
> # letter to Nature explaining our objections to their license
> # terms. A copy of the letter is posted on our website:
> # http://www.trln.org/Nature.pdf
> 
> I spoke to someone today in the New York office of Nature, and she told me
> that there are certain "technological"  problems they need to work out in
> order to provide full access to online content for institutional
> subscribers.  She assured me that Nature does not wish to delay access to
> any part of its content, and that as soon as the technology enables them
> to do so, they will be offering full access to its institutional
> subscribers.  She also said a new pricing structure will be introduced on
> April 1st, so hopefully the access issues may also be worked out by then
> too.
> 
> Jonathan Lord /Asst Director for Collection Development
> Univ of Virginia Health Sciences Library
> P.O. Box 800722 / Charlottesville, VA 22908-0722
> 804-924-0059 / FAX: 804-243-5873
> E-Mail: JonLord@Virginia.edu

-- 
David Goodman
Biology Librarian 
and Co-chair, Electronic Journals Task force
Princeton University Library
Princeton, NJ 08544-0001
phone: 609-258-3235
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