From: Jim Sims (jsims$##$ucrac1.ucr.edu)
Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 13:28:10 EDT
Henry:
I agree with all your sentiments! The University of California has a site
license for SciFinder and Science Citation Index (I found Beilstein for
free). I as a user am not charged. UC has also many journals on line so
that it is very convenient to do library searches in my office and print
out the articles I need. Most on line journals only go back a few years.
I for one dropped my subscription to Tet. Lett. and subscribed to Organic
Letters for just the reasons you mention. Publishers take our work which
we are too happy to give away (so that we can be promoted) and charge
outrageous prices to our libraries for subscriptions to the journals.
Something has to give in this situation. JIM
>>We have had SciFinder here for a few months. I think that it is great!
>
>Ah, but who paid for it. CAS prices here are £18,000 per annum for a single
>user license for Scholar. That is many times more than the equivalent cost of
>Beilstein and WOS.
>--
>
>Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0)20 7594 5804 (Fax)
>Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY, UK.
>http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/
Professor Jim Sims
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
Voice: 909 787 4127
FAX 909 787 4294
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