British List and the BOU website (1 Viewer)

Is it me or is the BOU website in a mess. When I tried to get a new British List, the link takes me to a Wiley Interscience page which appears to be the same page whether I want an apparent free to view British List or the latest BOURC report or almost anything else. If I choose the British List from the side menu then I do get another page before the Wiley page comes up and then I can apparently get anything that I have clicked on if I register and cough up 30 dollars (well $29.95).

Now when I want more details on the Hooded Merganser addition to the British List, I was going to have to pay $29.95 a few minutes ago but now when I click this link I get lots of details about 'Applications of stable isotope analyses to avian ecology' for free. I only wanted to look at the current British List but it appears to be too difficult.

If anyone else is having similar troubles, and therefore it is not at my end, I will email them.

I have just got the british list as an excel file but...... no hooded merganser in it. I think BOU have cottoned on to the fund raising potential of their pages.

Thanks for the reply Keith. Yes, today I got the British List but most of the other links don't go where they should. The 'more details' on the Hooded Merganser goes to the isotope paper I mentioned earlier. Yes, they may want to make money but at least the links should work properly.

www.bou.org.uk/recbrlst1.html

If anyone wants to see the list. New additions such as Hooded Merganser are added a few days after the announcement apparently.

Steve

Thanks Steve. The British List from the side headings on the BOU website appeared to work everytime but the links from the list on the right and down the centre were certainly going awry over the last two days when I was looking through it. I have just tried again and all is working correctly. They must have had a glitch. Thanks again.