Re: Workflow for e-journals -- Beverly Dowdy Stephen Clark 07 Mar 2003 14:55 UTC
From: "Beverly Dowdy" <bdowdy@ucok.edu> Subject: RE: Workflow for e-journals -- Barbara Rauch Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:41:00 -0600 There are too many variables in ejournals to keep track of them yourself, and they change frequently. The best method at this point is to subscribe to a service such as Serials Solutions. They offer an A-Z listing of all your ejournals by journal title with holdings data, so overlaps are evident. There are at least 2 other providers of a similar service, but I can't remember their names. Serials Solutions updates their list every other month, and will include your print titles and holdings as well. Ebsco will be coming out soon with an A-Z listing updated more frequently, I understand. But Ebsco also offers a registration tracker as part of their EJS (Electronic journals service), which I have found invaluable for keeping up with ejournals received free because of print subscriptions. But keep in mind that overlaps of journal titles are not necessarily a bad thing - different vendors often provide different amounts of coverage of a journal title. In doing a review of the ejournal "Science" for the Charleston Advisor 2 years ago, I found that some vendor platforms provided 70% of the table of contents from the journal, some 80%, and some 95%, mostly because some vendors left out certain sections of the TOCs. Some vendors provided graphs and photographs which were in the print version of the articles, some did not. Some provided MORE data than was in the print version. Hope this helps with part of your question. Beverly Dowdy Serials Librarian University of Central Oklahoma -----Original Message----- Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 12:19:11 +1300 From: "Barbara Rauch" <barbara.rauch@aut.ac.nz> Subject: Workflow for e-journals Hi We are trying to make our serials electronic access only as far as possible, so we began by purchasing large aggregated databases. The intention was to reduce duplication by not keeping the print version, if it also comes online. Now we have duplicated online resources where the aggregators lists of journals overlap and of course the online version where it comes as part of the print sub. Anyway I'm digressing. Does anyone have a systematic method or workflow to manage things like identifying duplicated online access, identifying the print + online subs. titles with embargoes (of which we will continue to keep in print), publisher restrictions (like 'must have sub. to Emerald/Wiley/ or whatever'), claims for the online part of the sub., consortia payments (which means more than one vendor i.e. the one that invoices and the one that gives access, which are frequently different) and so on? We will be going live with Voyager in December. Perhaps this will help, but I'm sceptical. Perhaps an Access database will help as there are so many variables. This is the way I'm thinking of going, but am I just created uneccessary work for myself? How do others keep track of this kind of info.? I hope I'm not the only one swimming through mud over this. Barbara Barbara Rauch, Acquisitions Librarian Auckland University of Technology Library / Te Whare Matauranga Room W301, A Block 59 Wellesley Street East, Private Bag 92006 Auckland 1020, New Zealand Ph: (09) 917 9999 ex 8874 Fx: (09) 917 9977 barbara.rauch@aut.ac.nz http://www.aut.ac.nz