I received this message from Dawn Ingram at Metapress today:
The Metapress business has indeed been purchased by Atypon and all Metapress hosted sites are being phased out as we transition all of our publishers to new hosting platforms.
Announcements were made about this in April 2014, and we expect to have completed the transfer of all publishers to new hosts by the end of April 2015.
Please note that each publisher has a choice regarding their new platform. While a number of them have chosen to transition to Atypon’s Literatum platform, others have chosen
other services such as Allen Press’ Pinnacle platform.
The Metapress support staff is working hard to assist all of our publishers during this transition to try to make this as seamless as possible for all parties concerned. All
access that Metapress has in our database is being transferred to the new host for each publisher, along with information about the institution including IPs and administrators. Redirects from the existing Metapress site to the new location are being implemented,
so that as soon as a publisher transitions to their new host, any links coming into their Metapress platform will automatically redirect to the new location. The administrator listed on the account should be notified by the new host in order to activate their
own account on the new platform as we are not transferring any password information. However, the library patrons will hopefully be unaffected as they will be redirected to the new host and recognized via IP and allowed access.
Usage data is not being transferred to the new host for any of our publishers, but the COUNTER reports will remain available from the
www.metapress.com site for approximately 6 months. Data for the previous month is usually posted by the 20th of the following month.
Jeanette L. Skwor
Serials Dept., Cofrin Library
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
2420 Nicolet Drive
Green Bay, WI 54311-7003
"Serials control is like trying to nail Jell-o to the wall."
--Anonymous