Survey on Presentation of E-Journals -- Regina Reynolds Stephen D. Clark 07 Feb 2000 14:35 UTC
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Survey on Presentation of E-Journals Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 09:13:43 -0500 From: Regina Reynolds <rrey@LOC.GOV> MODERATOR'S NOTE: Regina requested that all responses be sent to her -- please make sure to forward them on to: rrey@LOC.GOV. SERIALST Co-Moderator Dear Colleagues: As more and more libraries are cataloging e-journals, catalogers are having to contend with a lack of standardization in the bibliographic information presented on the journals. In order to gather some data for my participation in a NISO workshop on E-Jounals: Best Practices I have drafted the following survey. Representatives from publishers will be attending the meeting and I hope to communicate to the publishers the importance of including complete, easy-to-locate, and unambiguous information about their journals in the online publications themselves. Your input will strengthen my recommendations to the publishing community and potentially help gain support for a NISO standard on the presentation of e-journals or for some kind of best practices document on this subject. Please return the survey to me at rrey@loc.gov by Tuesday, Feb. 15. Thank you very much for taking the time to complete the survey. Regina R. Reynolds email: rrey@loc.gov Head, National Serials Data Program voice: (202) 707-6379 Library of Congress fax (202) 707-6333 101 Independence Avenue, S.E. ISSN Web page: lcweb.loc.gov/issn/ Washington, D.C. 20540-4160 ******************************************************************* SURVEY ON E-JOURNALS PRESENTATION Listed below are some problems which catalogers encounter in the presentation of e-journals. Please indicate your opinion of the severity of each problem by using the following scale: 1--no problem 2--a minor problem 3--a problem 4--a significant problem 5--a most serious problem 1. Lack of standard bibliographic information: ____ title _____issue designation ___ publisher ____ date last updated ___ place of publication ____ names of responsible bodies ___ frequency ____ subscription information ___ Copyright holder ____ title of counterpart print serial other___________________________________________________________ 2. Title problems: _____ title of the serial is changed and all issues now carry the new title (i.e., old title disappears from even the back issues) ____ multiple presentations of the title, some with different wording ____ difficulty in identifying a cataloging title ____ difficulty in determining how many serials are on a given site other_______________________________________________________________ 3. ISSN Problems ____ No ISSN ___ ISSN of print serial is used to identify online serial ___ multiple ISSN on one serial without clarification of what the ISSN identify ___ ambiguous ISSN use (e.g., ISSN of newsletter used on organization Web site) other:_____________________________________________________________ 4. Storage and retention ___ No information given about policies regarding downloading or storing in local archives ___ No information given about whether and how long publisher will retain back issues on the Web site other____________________________________________________________ 5. Other concerns: please describe other problems that make bibliographic control difficult which you have experienced with the presentation of e-journals. _____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 6: Your name & email address_____________________________________ Your institution____________________________________________ Your duties with regard to e-journals (cataloger, reference, administrator, etc.) ______________________________________________ Please return surveys by Feb. 15. Thank you very much!