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NATURE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY
HERE'S WHY:

Nature (and the Nature monthlies) are no longer available electronically at Princeton, because the publisher refuses to sell the full electronic version to institutional subscribers.

The publisher is only willing to make available a version containing just the Brief Communications, Articles, and Letters to Nature section. but not the Opinion, News, Book Reviews, and News and Views sections, which will be available only after a three month delay.

In contrast, the entire magazine is available immediately electronically to personal subscribers. We feel that this delay in publication of this widely read and time sensitive material in the institutional online edition defeats the very purpose of online journals, and of the library, which is to make material available as widely as possible on equal terms to all members of the university.

Nature and its associated journals are exceptionally important resources, used extensively by faculty and students. A full electronic version would be of great value, but we do not feel our patrons will benefit adequately from the provision of an abridged version of the full publication.
We hope that it will be possible to persuade them to make the full version available, because we certainly want to resume our electronic subscriptions.


The proper persons to complain to about the Nature policy are:

Ms. Della Sar
Director of Global Marketing
d.sar@nature.com

   Ms. Annette Thomas
Managing Director
a.thomas@nature.com
  and  
Mr. Philip Campbell
Editor
p.campbell@nature.com
They are all located in the UK, at:
Nature
Porters South
4 Crinan Street
London N1 9XW, UK

Telephone: +44(0)20 7833 4000
Fax +44(0)20 7833 4596 or 4597

If you would like, you may send a message to
all three
or to all three, with a copy to us
(or just to us, if you want to agree, disagree, or comment about our policy.)

This message is from the Princeton Electronic Journals Task Force.