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Abstract	IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please be aware that there will be an interruption in access to Nature monthly titles and other selected Nature content on HOLLIS beginning February 28 due to unacceptable license terms from Nature Publishing Group. Harvard’s institutional password will expire at that time. Access to the Nature title itself will continue on a trial basis, with the exception of restricted content formerly accessible through the password. Nature Online License Agreement Harvard University Library is presently seeking an appropriate and equitable license from Nature Publishing Group to the online versions of Nature and the Nature monthlies. The terms of the institutional license include a 12-issue delay for select sections of Nature and a 3-issue delay for select sections of monthly titles, high online cost relative to peer publications, and lack of perpetual access to licensed content. The current license specifically disenfranchises institutional users as personal subscribers have immediate access to full content at the time of publication. Harvard libraries are seeking no delay in online access for users. For Harvard-wide access, Nature online is priced at $10,311, and the Nature monthlies online are priced at $5,650. In contrast, Science Online at $5,500 is about half the price of Nature with full and timely content. Harvard's letter to the Nature Publishing Group is reproduced below. We would like to hear your comments and concerns. Please feel free to share these with an appropriate individual at your library. Thank you for your patience as Harvard libraries continue to work for reasonable access to Nature online. LETTER FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY TO NATURE November 20, 2000 Mr. Phillip LoFaso Vice President, Marketing Nature Publishing Group 345 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10010 Dear Mr. LoFaso: I am writing in relation to the electronic version of Nature. Nature is a major publication, used extensively by our faculty. We had hoped that the on-line version would greatly improve its usefulness by bringing the contents of Nature to our users in a timely manner. However, we find that the terms of the proposed licensing agreement for Nature would do just the opposite. A three-month delay in the availability of some very important parts of the journal represents a major diminution of its value. When we add to this other aspects of the proposed agreement, especially the high cost of the electronic version and the lack of perpetual rights to archive the journal, we believe that it will be very difficult for the Harvard Library to agree to these terms. Much as we value Nature and the Nature monthlies and much as we know our faculty and students would welcome the electronic version, we do not feel we will serve their needs by subscribing to such an inferior version of what might be supplied. We hope that you will reconsider your approach to this matter. Sincerely, Sidney Verba Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library This resource now uses the APC proxy. If you are denied access to this resource, you may need to configure your browser for automatic proxy.
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