Recent outages affecting SpringerLink and Nature have now been fixed.
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Watch Out for Journal Sites That Offer Articles in ReadCube Format
Some of the major journal publishers, such as Wiley and Nature, have added ReadCube as an option for viewing the full text of an article. Depending on which journal platform you’re on, you may see links for the article as a PDF and as an “Interactive PDF from ReadCube” or just one option. Here are some examples:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7221/full/456450a.html
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1017/S1464793106007032/abstract
Although these “ReadCube PDFs” may be billed as PDFs, they have some flaws, as noted by researcher Ross Mounce, who finds that they are not clearly labeled on the article page by Wiley and that in some cases the images are messed up from the original PDF. In the case of Wiley’s interface, if you want the original PDF, you first have view the ReadCube PDF and then within the ReadCube interface look for the “Download PDF” option on the bottom; only then will you be able to the traditional PDF.
Interestingly, Mounce suggests that people who are concerned about the usability problems with how ReadCube is presented and functions, and with the DRM that is built into the technology, and with its possible privacy issues may actually want to block ReadCube PDFs from even appearing in their browsers and offers a range of browser plugins and security settings to do so.
SpringerLink Down (updated)
UPDATE 20 March 2015 5:00 pm] The problem is now fixed.
I just confirmed with Nancy Egan at CUNY OLS that SpringerLink is down due to some technical problem. She’ll contact the vendor.
SpringerLink Access Problem Is Fixed
The problem we were having in SpringerLink accessing current issues of journals–previously reported here–has been fixed.
Problem with Access to Recent Journal Issues on SpringerLink (UPDATED)
UPDATE 9/26/2014: This problem is now fixed.
There is a problem in the CUNY-wide subscription to a bundle of journals from Springer that is preventing us from getting to the full text of recent journal issues on the SpringerLink platform. For example, we should have access from 1997 to the present for Social Indicators Research, but when you click through to the SpringerLink platform to the landing page for that journal, the most recent issue where you can get full text is March 2014 (volume 116, issue 1).
If someone is unable to get to any Springer content that we should have access to (you can verify that using the A-Z journals search), feel free to suggest to them that it is OK to put in an interlibrary loan request for the article. Any ILL request that they send it should mention in the note form that the article is unavailable from Springer.
As soon as this problem is resolved with the vendor, there’ll be an update here on the blog.