Subscription Agent Obligations (3 messages) Marcia Tuttle 12 Nov 2003 15:54 UTC
----------1 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:58:50 +0100 From: KAUFFMANN Jean-Pierre <jp.kauffmann@essca.asso.fr> Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Subscription agent obligations Bonjour Emmanuel A priori, c'est vous qui serez le mieux placé pour juger de la chose. Nous n'avons pas de contact direct avec l'éditeur sauf exception. Nous travaillons avec EBSCO (anciennement Dawson depuis 1974) et en sommes globalement satisfaits. Bon courage Jean-Pierre Kauffmann Groupe ESSCA responsable Service information documentation tél. 02 41 73 47 52 http://sidsiel.essca.asso.fr -----Message d'origine----- De : Emmanuel COLLIER [mailto:e.collier@CITE-SCIENCES.FR] Envoyé : mercredi 12 novembre 2003 11:24 À : SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Objet : [SERIALST] Subscription agent obligations Hello, in my public library, i'm recently in charge of the development of access to electronic publications. We have subscribed a contract with Ebsco for all our subscriptions, paper and electronic. I would like to now if Ebsco has to manage our accesses to the journals or if it's my job to do it. I red severals articles about it, mainly americans and they deal with the idea that it could be the role of the subscription agent. On the other way, i've found sources that say it's the role of the serial librarian to do it... I'm a little bit lost ! What is your experience with subscription agent with the question of electronic access management of journals ? Thanks a lot in advance Emmanuel Collier Médiathécaire Pôle Science et Société Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie Avenue Corentin Carriou, Paris http://www.cite-sciences.fr ----------2 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:02:16 -0600 From: Nancy Murillo <nsmurill@neiu.edu> Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Subscription agent obligations Good question! We began using Ebsco and their free EJS Basic Service a few months ago. It looks like they will set up and authenticate the online journals that they are able to; the rest is up to us. I've been looking at a trial version of their pricey EJS Enhanced package which supposedly can track online titles that the library needs to authenticate. (Does anybody have any opinions about EJS Basic versus EJS Enhanced? About adding these titles to your SerialsSolutions list?) In the meantime, I've been going through each of our online titles on EJS and verifying access. Nancy Sarah Murillo Technical Services Librarian Northeastern Illinois University Ronald Williams Library 5500 N. Saint Louis Avenue Chicago, IL 60625 (773) 442-4454 ----------3 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:17:20 -0500 From: Sandhya D. Srivastava <LIBRSDS@Mail1.Hofstra.edu> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Subscription agent obligations Emmanuel If you get your subscriptions through Ebsco -- you can also for an extra $1000 get access to Ebscohost EJS Enhanced version which has within it -- a wonderful tool called the registration tracker. I have found this an excellent way to keep track of online registrations that have been done or are pending. It is an excellent resource to keep track of your online subscriptions activation. It is a functional tool that allows you to update the Ebscohost EJS service you have. It is better sometimes to have this process be a two way street. A lot of it is independent librarian work and I like to save the really tough problems for the vendor to help with. I believe that if you have EJS a lot of the titles may be on the Ebsco server. It is only the ones that are not on their server that you will have to activate directly through the publisher but the tool to access the subscription would be EJS. You should call Ebsco and ask for more information about Ebscohost EJS. Sandhya Srivastava Sandhya D. Srivastava Assistant Professor Serials Librarian Hofstra University Axinn Library 123 Hofstra University Hempstead, New York 11550 Telephone: (516) 463 - 5959 Fax: (516) 463 - 6438 Email: librsds@hofstra.edu