Re: Claiming Skipped Issues Melissa Farley 18 Mar 2005 18:14 UTC
Thanks. :) I check each issue before I claim it, I just wanted the skipped issues to appear on my print out, since I might not generate a claim for them visually based on date. Basically, I've been generating a claim for everything before a certain date, but I don't actually claim it all. I use the reports I run to go through the check-in records and make notes. Most of our titles are EBSCO, so I claim through their website, and I check the notes there before I claim as well. It is an involved, time-consuming process! I found a comment on the problems list that indicates which issues are skipped, so I generated a claim for all of them. That seemed to work. One of my future goals is to get EDI set up completely. That would be nice. I appreciate all of the comments. I've been reading the posts for a while, but this was my first question. -Melissa Jenny Lockwood wrote: > Dear Melissa, > Welcome to the world of serials. First of all, I would caution you > not to > claim skipped copies automatically or claim issues that are a month past > their cover date or date of last receipt. A skipped copy may result > from a > publication pattern needing to be changed, be an indication that an issue > was incorrectly checked in, or often, particularly in the case of > conference or proceeding issues, been checked in as an annual on another > record and not noted on another check in record you have for that series. > Often, when issues go to the printer, the vol. and issue numbers are not > changed or are incorrectly noted. As far as issues surpassing their > expect > date; this is quite common, particularly with quarterlies, small presses, > titles for which a college department has assumed editorial/publishing > responsibility etc. I use WorldCat to check other libraries' holdings, > information in our subscription agent's database, the check-in history, > publisher websites and a copy of the journal itself to evaluate each > claim. It is time and work expended upfront, but by being careful about > what you claim, you save yourself work down the road. That said, we are > using an old version of voyager, but we have a job which runs on our main > server on a day designated by us which pulls up all the titles which have > surpassed their expect +claim interval date and all the skipped > copies. If > an issue is skipped it will be identified as the reason it came up on the > problem list. On any day other than when this job is run on the main > server, if I search problems by date, I will only pull up skipped > copies---I hope this makes some sort of sense or is applicable to the > version of voyager you are using and again ---Welcome to serials, you may > get frustrated and annoyed ( to put it nicely) but I doubt you will > ever be > bored > Jenny > a 07:17 AM 3/18/2005, you wrote: > >> Hi, >> I've only been working in serials about 4 months now. I remember >> reading somewhere that it may be possible to claim skipped issues in >> Voyager fairly easily and/or quickly from the problems screen when >> generating claims. Is that really possible? If so, how do I do it? >> Normally, I'll only generate claims for issues that are dated about a >> month old--but if a newer issue has arrived for that title, I want to >> claim the skipped issue, no matter what the date. Does Voyager allow me >> to do this easily (I mean without looking up each individual title)? >> >> I've been looking through the voyager manual and the endeavor >> website--without any luck. >> >> Thanks, >> Melissa Farley >> >> -- >> ******************************** >> >> Melissa Farley >> Library Technical Assistant >> Irvine Sullivan Ingram Library >> University of West Georgia >> Carrollton, GA 30118 >> >> (678) 839-6498 >> mfarley@westga.edu >> >> ******************************** > -- ******************************** Melissa Farley Library Technical Assistant Irvine Sullivan Ingram Library State University of West Georgia Carrollton, GA 30118 (678) 839-6498 mfarley@westga.edu ********************************