An electronic mess

I'm trying to access the European Journal of Heart Failure, whose website says it is available on Science Direct. But it's not on Science Direct. The catalogue of the University I'm working at says it is available on Science Direct. But it's not. TDNet says it is available on Science Direct...even the journal website says it is available on Science Direct. But it's not.

Rooting around, there was an announcement on Science Direct last August that EJHF was transferring to OUP in 2009.  More rooting around finds an old message:

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has transferred the publishing contract for the European Heart Journal from Elsevier to Oxford University Press(OUP). OUP started publishing the title as of volume 26, 2005. All publishing and electronic rights have also been transferred. The archival content is available via the new publisher’s website.

In the majority of transfer cases, Elsevier manages to secure the non-exclusive archival rights, allowing content to be available on ScienceDirect as well as the new website. Unfortunately, in this case, this was not possible and the content had to be removed from ScienceDirect. Whilst such removals are not common, they do happen occasionally and Elsevier is legally obliged to comply.

Maybe ECS/OUP take all their content away from Science Direct. Whatever, it's a bit of a mess.

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