Re: Something about Project Muse Tian Zhang 30 Mar 2006 16:22 UTC
The answer to the questions: 1. We subscribe full package from Project Muse, which is 273 titles. 2. I used the Overlap Analysis by Serials Solutions where all our e-journals with databases titles are listed to run the report. The report says: the title unique for Project Muse is 35 the holding unique is 13 the percentage of unique is 17.6%. 3. I did not check each title for the coverage. But I did checked some titles, and I found the coverage of Muse is the same as Ebsco, or ProQuest, or some other databases. But I will do the whole coverage checking and will post the number to the listserv. Thank you. Tian X. Zhang Serials Librarian St. John's University Library 8000 Utopia Parkway Queens, NY 11439 -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Hutchens, Chad Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 4:13 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Something about Project Muse "more than 80% of Muse titles are redundant with the other databases we have" Are you speaking of just title overlap? Or are you counting in coverage overlap as well? That is, the titles might occur in other databases, but is the coverage equal for the same title in another database? My other question would be which PM packages do you currently have...or, which package(s) did you cancel rather? Chad E. Hutchens Electronic Resources Librarian Montana State University Libraries P.O. Box 173320 Bozeman, MT 59717-3320 (406) 994-4313 phone (406) 994-2851 fax chutchens@montana.edu -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Tian Zhang Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:35 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Something about Project Muse Until 2005, our university library subscribed Project Muse. This year, as the subscription fee goes up, I was asked to have the overlap analyses with all our other databases about the Muse titles. The result is: more than 80% of Muse titles are redundant with the other databases we have. Only about less than 40 titles in Muse are unique. (18 Duke titles which are also unique have been already withdrawn from Muse). At last, our library decided not to subscribe Project Muse starting 2006. But after we stop the subscription, we got phone calls from professors who are used to Muse for retrieve some articles. Even though I some times can find the articles for them by using ProQuest, or Ebsco, or some other databases, this makes me rethink whether it is a correct decision to quit Project Muse. And another problem is that when users tried to get articles from a title in Jstor, they were referred to Muse. So, I have to raise the question for our library whether we should pick it up again or not. I just want to hear from the other Serials Librarians: what do you think about Project Muse? And what is your library's policy for deselect databases with the impact of budget? Thank you in advice for sharing the information with me. Tian X. Zhang Serials Librarian St. John's University Library 8000 Utopia Parkway Queens, NY 11439