[Math] What happened to online articles published in K-theory (Springer journal)

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As most people probably know, the journal "K-theory" used to be published by Springer, but was discontinued after the editorial board resigned around 2007. The editors (or many of them) started the new "Journal of K-theory" in collaboration with Cambridge University Press.

Maybe I'm being very stupid or missing something obvious, but I am quite sure that articles from "K-theory" used to be available online via Springer, and as far as I can see they are no longer there. Did I miss something here, or did they just disappear? I can't believe Springer would do that, but then I can't find anything by searching, and the article links from MathSciNet are dead:

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In case it helps, here is the journal ISSN: 0920-3036 (print version) 1573-0514 (electronic version).

Grateful for any clarification.

Best Answer

It seems that the archives have been taken down because of "legal issues related to the ownership of the content." See http://publishing.mathforge.org/discussion/169/clockss-and-portico/#Item_18 for further discussion. Unfortunately, nobody involved seems to be publicly discussing the situation, and I have not yet been able to learn exactly what's going on. One natural guess is that this has something to do with how the journal ended, but I really don't know. In any case, it's outrageous for a journal to disappear, and the community deserves to know why it has happened and what can be done about it.