My understanding is that the ARL statistics have changed in 2 important
ways for 2006/2007 reporting.

1) each title is counted once, not each subscription, so you need to
dedup among all print and electronic subscriptions

2) titles in aggregator databases are counted in the regular statistics
(and have been dropped from supplemental)

I am not able to get to the ARL site right now, but my printout says:

Report the total number of unique serial titles, NOT SUBSCRIPTIONS, that
you currently acquire. Do not include duplicate counts of serials
titles. To the extent possible, report all government document serials
even if housed in a separate documents collection. Verify the inclusion
or exclusion of document serials in Question ??? [#5 is crossed out].
Exclude unnumbered monographic and publishers' series. Electronic
serials acquired as part of a bundle or an aggregated package should be
counted by title even if they are not cataloged as long as they are
accessible by the library.
...
In the case of consortial agreements, count under serials purchased only
those titles for which the library pays directly from its budgets
expenditures. Count under 'serials purchased' only those titles for
which your library pays even if partially paid from the library's
budget. Report other titles that your library receives and does not pay
for directly under serials received and not purchased. If a purchased
title includes electronic access to the title, count that title ONLY
ONCE (DEDUPED) for electronic only. If serials have been purchased
through a consortium whose budget is centrally funded and independent
from the library's budget, these serials should be reported under
'serials received and not purchased.'

The paragraph about do not include full text serials from
indexing/abstracting products has been crossed out.

I believe this year we will be counting JSTOR titles as well as old
portions of title changes in aggregator databases and for free titles
because we can't come up with a way to exclude them. If we can figure
out an automated way to exclude them from our count, we would limit our
totals to current serials, since that is what the question requests.

Wendy Robertson
Electronic Resources Systems Librarian, LIT
The University of Iowa Libraries
wendy-robertson@uiowa.edu
319-335-5821

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Pennington, Buddy D.
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:09 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Are Journals in JSTOR Current Serials?

Well that answers one of my questions.  I wonder why they took it out of
the directions.  Different folks do them over the years (I wasn't
involved until 2005).

And it still makes you wonder why that portion of our collections is not
something counted in the statistics when it arguably is the one making
the most impact (Academic Search Premier is by far our number one
resource in terms of usage and FT).

Buddy Pennington
Serial Acquisitions Librarian
University of Missouri - Kansas City
University Libraries
800 East 51st Street
Kansas City, MO  64110
816-235-1548
816-333-5584 (fax)
penningtonb@umkc.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Gibbons, Dennis
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:21 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Are Journals in JSTOR Current Serials?

The instructions for line 26 of the 2003 Academic Libraries Survey
stated: "Do not count the titles included in full-text article databases
such as Lexis-Nexis, ABI/INFORM." One assumes this still pertains though
not explicitly stated.

--Dennis

Dennis Gibbons
Collection Development Librarian
Texas Christian University       Phone: 817-257-7312
TCU Box 298400                    Fax:     817-257-7282
Fort Worth, TX 76129              E-mail: d.gibbons@tcu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Eduardo Gil
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:21 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Are Journals in JSTOR Current Serials?

Do any of you count active (current) subscriptions if available through
aggregate databases such as Infotrac, Academic Search Premier.  Up to
now I've only been counting ("official count") those serials/journals
that are the real thing, ex., Project muse titles, Science Direct,
Springer etc.

Eduardo

Hutchens, Chad wrote:
> I don't see why you wouldn't count a JSTOR title if you're receiving
> the title individually (even though it's in JSTOR as well).
>
> Some titles in JSTOR are still active (in that they're still being
> published), some have ceased publication (but the full run isn't
> available in JSTOR because the moving wall hasn't caught up with the
> last issue), and some are have ceased and JSTOR offers access to the
> full run of the journal.  So I guess the answer is, it depends on the
> title.
>
> Clear as mud right?
>
> 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 Gibbons, Dennis
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:18 PM
> To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
> Subject: [SERIALST] Are Journals in JSTOR Current Serials?
>
> Line 26 of the Academic Libraries Survey asks for the number of
> current serial titles held at the end of the Fiscal Year. The
> instructions for line 26 read:
>
> Part D - Library Collections
> Current serial titles (line 26) - Report the total number of titles in

> all formats. If the title comes in both paper and electronic form,
> count it twice. Count each individual title if it is received as part
> of a publisher's package. Include paper and microfilm government
> documents issued serially if they are accessible through the library's

> catalog. Report indexing and abstracting services that may contain
> full-text in line 27.
>
> Do any libraries count JSTOR journals as current serial titles?
>
> Dennis Gibbons
> Collection Development Librarian
> Texas Christian University       Phone: 817-257-7312
> TCU Box 298400                    Fax:     817-257-7282
> Fort Worth, TX 76129              E-mail: d.gibbons@tcu.edu
>