Re: Project Muse & JSTOR[Scanned] Arnold, Diane 26 May 2005 20:56 UTC
Thank you, I will ask. I was checking the titles in common at the PM website and see that they are scattered throughout their various packages. Someone else responded that linking the two may be optional. I will call JSTOR and see if this is truly the case. If so, we can turn PM off until we are able to subscribe. Thanks again, Diane -----Original Message----- From: van Sickle, Jennifer [mailto:Jennifer.Vansickle@trincoll.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:49 PM To: Arnold, Diane Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Project Muse & JSTOR[Scanned] Yes, we were charter subscribers to JSTOR, so we get a break on the price. We don't have the Business collection. PM is absolutely essential for us; we are heavy users for a campus of this size. We signed up for this at the beginning as well. We now subscribe via the Amigos library group. You can do some picking and choosing with PM, but we added the entire collection a few years ago and have not regretted it. It's worth asking! Any questions, please let me know. -Jennifer Jennifer van Sickle Serials Librarian/Sciences Coordinator Trinity College Library 300 Summit St. Hartford, CT USA 06106 phone: 860-297-2250 fax: 860-297-2251 jennifer.vansickle@trincoll.edu -----Original Message----- From: Arnold, Diane [mailto:arnoldd@chc.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:37 PM To: van Sickle, Jennifer Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Project Muse & JSTOR[Scanned] Hi Jennifer, We also checked into consortium pricing but it was still very high. Do you also subscribe to JSTOR? This link http://www.jstor.org/about/recent-issues.html lists the titles that JSTOR has in common with PM. I'll have to check to see if PM has a "package" of just these titles and what that would cost. My guess is they would want a larger subscription. Do you know? Thanks for your email. Diane -----Original Message----- From: van Sickle, Jennifer [mailto:Jennifer.Vansickle@trincoll.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:10 PM To: Arnold, Diane Subject: FW: [SERIALST] Project Muse & JSTOR[Scanned] Hi Diane, Our subscription to PM is via a consortium. I'll be happy to answer questions about this. -Jennifer Jennifer van Sickle Serials Librarian/Sciences Coordinator Trinity College Library 300 Summit St. Hartford, CT USA 06106 phone: 860-297-2250 fax: 860-297-2251 jennifer.vansickle@trincoll.edu -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Arnold, Diane Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:07 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] Project Muse & JSTOR Hello, We're a small college that subscribes to JSTOR's Arts & Science I collection, but we don't subscribe to Project Muse. I'm wondering if there are others in my situation. Since they have merged, *most* of our search results are for a Project Muse title or issue for which we have no subscription. We know that if our undergraduates hit a brick wall every time they search in a database, they'll stop using it. This would be a shame, since JSTOR has some very valuable backfiles. We do have linking software that provides access to our JSTOR titles from our other indexes. I am tempted to remove the JSTOR link altogether from our web page and just let them access JSTOR from the citations in indexes like MLA and SocIndex. The problem, of course, is making sure they are searching the correct index to get the greatest number of records. We are loathe to be bullied into subscribing to a new database in order to keep an existing database useful. We have looked into Project Muse recently and like it, but the price has made us hold off. Any ideas on this? ___________________ Diane Arnold Serials Librarian Logue Library at Chestnut Hill College 9601 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19118