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Document M4Application Form for Subscriptions to Periodicals
Use this form if you wish to subscribe to BCRA's periodicals Cave & Karst Science (ISSN 1356-191X) or Speleology (ISSN 1478-999X) without becoming a member of BCA. This may be the cheaper option if you live overseas or do not need other benefits of membership. (See Document D1 for a list of membership benefits). Please check our web site bcra.org.uk/pub to see the most recent issues that have been published. To ease administration in what is a small volunteer-based organisation, we ask that you order any back-issues separately, using Form P1. See the BCA Membership & Subscriptions home page for further information.
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| For 2008, BCRA is offering a tiered membership with a lower membership fee for members who do not wish to receive Cave & Karst Science on paper. The launch date will coincide with the publication of volume 34(1) in about April 2008 when all members will have access to C&KS online. From vol. 34, the paper version of C&KS will be printed with some inside pages in colour. | ||
| Online access will allow members, on presentation of a user-id and access code, to download both individual articles and the complete journal as PDF files. An index to articles, complete with abstracts, will be publicly viewable. Although, initially, only new issues will be placed online, we hope to be able to digitise some back issues, although this depends on the amount of volunteer effort available. Just as it is possible to subscribe to the paper version without joining BCRA, so subscriptions to the online content will be available to non-members too. All customers who are issued with a user-id/access code will be able to access any of BCRA's online content for the period of their subscription. (In other words, subscriptions are not limited to newly-published issues of C&KS). Having said that, the amount of online content we can prepare from back-issues does depend on how much volunteer effort is available. | ||
| How do I receive my User-Id / Access Code?
These will be sent to you sometime in Spring 2008, either by post or by email, depending on what contact information we have for you. |
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| Can I specify my own password? No. We may introduce this feature later in the year but, to begin with, you must use the access code you are issued with. |
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| I do not have high-speed Internet Access. Will
you send me a CD-ROM? No. Or rather: we cannot realistically consider this unless a volunteer offers to take on the task. The PDFs will be broken down into individual articles so the down-loads should be a reasonable size for most people. You could also consider accessing the data at your local library or education centre. Failing that, paper is still a wonderful medium. |
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| How will you notify me that a new issue has
been published on-line? When you pay your subscription, you should tell us your email address. We will email you when an issue is published. Later in 2008, we will set up an Internet Mailing List for this purpose and it will then be up to you to manage your subscription to this list, which will be used to send out information to our members from time to time. |
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| Is Online Access Going to Cause the Demise of
the Paper Edition? Absolutely not. There are a number of ill-informed rumours that keep circulating on this subject, despite BCRA's pledge that it will continue to produce a paper edition! Provision of an online edition - and the parallel production of the paper version in colour - is seen as a way to ensure its survival, not its demise. |
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| For volume 34 of C&KS we will be using a 'direct digital printing' process (essentially a high-resolution colour laser printer). Not only does this provide a fixed cost per copy, right down to single copies, but it allows us to print in colour. This is seen as important in maintaining our academic readership. This printing process is already used for printing BCRA's CREG journal and the BCA Handbook and it was also used to print BCRA Cave Studies Series #17. Eventually, it is planned to use this process to provide a print-on-demand service for BCRA publications so that we do not need to hold a stock of back-issues. Of course, all plans depend on what our hard-pressed volunteers are able and willing to do. In the event of volunteers not being available to perform certain tasks then, no, BCRA cannot guarantee to continue to provide any service. | ||
| Why Isn't Online Access Free? C&KS costs money to produce, not least because the editorial assistant is paid for her time. BCRA costs money to run, regardless of how C&KS is published. The fee you pay has to contribute to both these costs. |
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