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library (at) helmholtz-berlin.deno limit to the base access to literature
Discontinued access to any electronic literature title means that the user does not longer enjoy the ease and comfort of a 1-click access. It does not mean that the user looses access to the title. Any article of any journal can always be ordered through the inter-liberary loan process. This process involves some moderate waiting time and some loss of quality, the latter dictated by copyright law. But if it is about mere content interlibrary-load is a cheap alternative to 1-click access except in instances of heavy use of a title.
journal subscriptions in 2012
As in every year, there are changes in the list of journals to which HZB subscribes, effective Jan. 2012 or shortly afterwards.
Price increases of typically 5 - 7% by the publishers and again a significant reduction of the HZB budget for literature conspire to adjust access to journals. We do discontinue access to journals after a case-by-case cost-usage analysis only - and with the aim to allow continued access to other journals and occasionally access to a previously not licensed title.
Changes in access to Elsevier journals
Effective January 2012, access to journals of the publisher Elsevier will be granted under a new 3-year agreement which applies to the whole of HZB. 1-click access will be granted, under this contract, to all Elsevier titles. This constitutes an marked improvement for users at the Lise-Meitner Campus who now will enjoy the same unlimited access which before 2012 only the users in Adlershof have enjoyed.
This agreement has been reached under the auspices of IGAFA, it will become effective most likely in course of January 2012.
access to other titles
Talks are continuing with the publishers Springer and Nature about access to their journals effective 2012. Results will be announced here once they become available.
