Re: best journal hosting sites Stokes, Judith 28 Feb 2006 20:15 UTC
Dear Wendy, I think you are very much on topic and really appreciate your asking our opinions! The one thing I would ask is to PLEASE avoid Ingenta. Every once in a while, they just close our holdings at the end of a year, and don't tell us. This happens with print-includes-electronic access subscriptions from small presses or associations. Maybe the big publishers report renewals of this sort every year to Ingenta, but whatever the reason, I sure don't want to have to reregister every time I renew. As for Highwire, we don't find it difficult at all and we already have lots of e-journals there. Also, we do use Ebsco and they are very good about making sure we get electronic access if we pay for it, either with a print subscription or as an electronic subscription. My library doesn't cancel print subscriptions because of JSTOR coverage, but we do cancel microfilm subscriptions because we rely on JSTOR for the back-file. On the other hand, we do often cancel print subscriptions if we have Project Muse coverage, as long as we also have a back-file, either in microfilm or in JSTOR. Good luck with your e-journals, Judith Stokes, Serials Librarian James P. Adams Library Rhode Island College Providence, RI 02908-1991 (401)456-8165 JStokes@RIC.edu -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Belcher, Wendy Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 4:54 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] best journal hosting sites As the manager of a small academic press, I wanted to trouble the forum members with a question a bit off topic (forgive me!). In your opinions as serial librarians, which electronic journal hosting sites are the "best"? Best being defined as, perhaps, the most responsive, the best search capability, the cheapest, the most integrated, and so on. We were to have our interdisciplinary (humanities and social science) journal hosted by the University of California Press, but they decided that adding outside journals was too much trouble and balked at the last minute. So I am scrambling to get us online this spring. We used to have our content online for free, but we found that libraries started to cancel, so we took the content down. We don't have a lot of institutional support and depend on subscriptions to survive. I gather that these are the various journal hosting options we have: HighWire Press: A division of the Stanford University Libraries, which hosts lots of journals but seems a bit difficult to figure out JStore: Since the older content is free, my impression is that libraries may cancel Project Muse: Ditto Ebsco: Seems efficient, since we all deal with them anyway Ingenta: Apparently raises prices a lot ??? I appreciate any thoughts. Sincerely, Wendy Belcher Press Manager UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center 193 Haines Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1544 Sign up for our free monthly newsletter at www.chicano.ucla.edu!