These are good questions, please share responses with the list. 

Thank you,

Sally

Sally Smith                
Bethel University Library/Serials Dept.    
3900 Bethel Drive  St. Paul, MN 55112 
Phone:  651-635-8544   Fax:  651-635-1979
http://library.bethel.edu

From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Tian Zhang
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:47 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Token subscriptions for online articles instead of online journal titles - how do you manage this kind of subscription?

Because of several reasons, this year we canceled some package subscriptions and canceled some online titles with low usage statistics as well. Instead, we subscribe tokens in order to provide our patrons with online full texts upon their requests. Tokens can be used to all the journals published by this publisher we bought tokens from. But to manage this kind of subscription, I have some questions:

1. Are there other libraries doing the same thing as we do?
2. If you also subscribe tokens instead of titles, how do you treat these titles – as your subscribed titles listed in your Serials Solutions or do not list them at all?
3. If you do not list the titles in your e-journals collection, how do you let your library users know they are part of your subscription which can be accessed by asking for?
4. How do you manage the use of the tokens – not controlled by librarians at  all? Or be fully controlled by librarians of which department, ILL or Serials Dept?

You may send email to me directly to discuss it if you prefer. Thanks in advance.

Tian Zhang

Serials Department

St. John's University Library

8000 Utopia Parkway

Queens, NY 11439

Tel. 718 990-5082

Fax. 718 990-5938

Email: zhangt@stjohns.edu