2 messages:

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:22:49 -0700
From: Ed Jones <ejones@nu.edu>
Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Counting Electronic Journals

I don't think there's any satisfactory way to report online
subscriptions.  We try to keep track of what we think may be our online
subscriptions, but the boundaries are extremely nebulous.  There are
titles that we subscribe to individually, there are those that we
receive as components of journal packages (Project MUSE) or consortial
subscriptions (Kluwer Online), there are "free" journals that we can
easily harvest via our Serials Solutions MARC record service (HighWire
Press free journals), and there are those to which some publishers
provide access via aggregations (such as Karger titles in EBSCOhost's
Academic Search Premier).  Coming up with a meaningful figure is next to
impossible.  We keep track of the number of Serials Solutions MARC
records in our catalog, and that's about it.  When a reporting agency
asks for something more finely tuned, we make an educated guess.

Ed Jones
Bibliographic and Metadata Services Coordinator
National University
9393 Lightwave Ave
San Diego, CA  92123-1447

+1 858 541 7920
+1 858 541 7997 (fax)

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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:30:41 -0500
From: John Lucas <jlucas@rowland.umsmed.edu>
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Counting Electronic Journals

I count the individual titles, not duplicates, whether they come as
part of our Institutional print subscriptions, free, through Highwire,
DOAG, PubMed Central, direct, our state supported 'Magnolia' project or
wherever.

We add the duplicate access through different sources, as they can come
on or go away so quickly,and coverage dates vary, I do not want to
chance dropping a title off, having forgotten that it is still
accessible through another source.

John Lucas

Serials Librarian
University of Mississippi Medical Center
2500 North State St
Jackson, MS 39216-4505

(PH) (601) 984-1277
(FAX)  ( 601) 984-1262
JLUCAS@ROWLAND.UMSMED.EDU

>---------- Original message ----------
>Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:36:25 -0400
>From: Edwardo Gil <gile@mail.montclair.edu>
>Subject: Counting Electronic Journals
>
>We count electronic journal titles where we have a paid subscription
>either individually or collectively (eg., Project Muse). There are two
>other free access sites Highwire Press and DOA Directory of Open Access
>Journals both providing free periodical titles full-text.  Do you folks
>count only the paid subscriptions or are you beginning to include the
>free subscriptions such as DOA.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Ed Gil
>Sprague Library
>Montclair State University
>Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
><gile@mail.montclair.edu>