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Commercial Digest 4 messages Stephen Clark 13 Feb 2009 16:19 UTC

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This week's digest contains 4 messages:

1. Improvements for Bioscience Reports
2. Some results from Higher Education Interlibrary Loan Management
Benchmarks
3. New Librarian Resource Center now live on SAGE website
4. Multilingual Matters/Channel View Transition update

1. Improvements for Bioscience Reports

Portland Press is delighted to report that in the first year since it took
over publication of Bioscience Reports it has seen a number of improvements.
If you used to receive access to this journal through SpringerLink please
check your records to see whether you have access from the new website.

www.bioscirep.org

NEWS:
Impact factor – Increase to 3.115
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 74/156 (Cell Biology category)
 (2007 Impact Factor, calculated by ISI(®), released June 2008)

- All six issues of the journal were published on schedule providing
researchers with recent advances across the whole breadth of the life
sciences, publishing original articles and reviews on topics including
biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology.

New Editor-in Chief – Professor Wanjin Hong, A*STAR, Singapore, has been
appointed as Editor-in-Chief.

Bioscience Reports now offers Opt2Pay – making it fully compliant to
publishing body mandates. Authors are now able to choose to pre pay to make
the Version of Record of their journal articles freely available immediately
on publication, on payment of a licence fee.

'My BSR' – allows you to set up your own personal profile so the journal
recognizes your preferences each time you visit, taking you directly to the
content covering your own research interests. You can also store links to
all your favourite articles in your personal filing cabinet.

Are you a past subscriber? If you used to receive online access to
Bioscience Reports through SpringerLink please contact us to renew your access.

Email: sales@portlandpress.com

Portland Press Ltd
Commerce Way
Colchester
CO2 8HP, UK
Tel: +44 1206 796351

2. Some results from Higher Education Interlibrary Loan Management
Benchmarks

Primary Research Group has published Higher Education Interlibrary Loan
Management Benchmarks, ISBN # 1-57440-112-2.  The 200-page study
presents data on interlibrary loan operations from more than 80 colleges in the
United States and Canada.   The report presents highly detailed data on loan
volume, copyright concerns, data reporting, shipping fees, departmental
organization, staffing, lines of authority, use of  software,
methods of determining productivity levels, provisions for the loan of unique or
highly specialized materials, budgets and fees, methods of determining end
user preference, licensing agreements and much more.

 Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:

•	Close to 15% of the libraries in the sample have performed a user
survey of ILL services within the past four years.
•	Mean turnaround time for borrowing requests for books was longer, a
mean of 7.67 days, 8.7 for public colleges and 6.31 for private colleges.
Requests from Canada took longer to fulfill than requests from the United
States, by a considerable margin of more than 1.5 days.
•	Mean spending for the libraries in the sample on shipping & courier
fees related to interlibrary loan was $6,857, with a median of just $2,042.
•	Close to 66% of the libraries in the sample allow interlibrary loan of
college textbooks.
•	More than 86% of private colleges in the sample participate in a
state borrowing network, while 71.7% of public college libraries participate in
one.
•	73% of the libraries in the sample use fax delivery for interlibrary loan
fulfillment.
•	A shade more than 47% of the libraries in the sample use their
interlibrary loan facilities to facilitate loans of materials between campuses or
units of their own institution.
•	For more than 57% of the libraries in the sample, use of photocopies
in interlibrary loan had decreased and had increased for only 9.1%.
•	29.17% of the libraries in the sample strongly agree with the
statement that interlibrary loan staff should have the individual in charge of
database licenses also verify license issues.
•	Close to 13% of the libraries surveyed strongly agreed that license
issue questions relating to interlibrary loan at their institution are handled on
an ad hoc, as-needed basis, without a written set or practices.
•	For about 21.2% of the libraries surveyed, the ILL department is
under the auspices of the library’s reference department.
•	17.65% of the colleges in the sample, the DD/EDD function is under
the auspices of the access services. All were U.S.-based colleges and, in
general, the more complex the degree offered, the more likely that the college
was to have the DD/EED function under the auspices of the access services
department.
•	21.69% of the libraries in the sample used WorldCat Local.
•	20% of the libraries in the sample have ever tried to negotiate
broader license terms for institutional and patron use of their digital
collections, specifically for interlibrary loan.
•	40% of the libraries in the sample report their in-state loans in their
ILL statistics. More than 59% of community colleges did so.
•	Close to 40% of the libraries in the sample require an MLS or MLIS
librarian to supervise the interlibrary loan or document delivery department.
•	72.6% of the libraries in the sample do not charge for document
delivery or for interlibrary loan and 19.2% charge to defray some, but less
than half, of the total cost.

Data is broken out by size and type of college, for public and private colleges,
and for colleges in the USA and in Canada.  For further information, view our
website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.

3. New Librarian Resource Center now live on SAGE website

SAGE is pleased to announce it has now transformed the SAGE Librarians'
Website into a user-friendly Librarian Resource Center. We hope the new
design and layout will enable our library and consortia customers to
find the information they need as quickly and easily as possible.

Visit www.sagepub.com/librarians to browse the new site featuring:

--The most current journals price list, new journals and changes, and
information on subscription options

--News and Announcements, including press releases and archives of SAGE
Librarians' Newsletters

--Information on SAGE's electronic products, including title lists and
brochures for SAGE Premier, the SAGE Deep Backfile Package, and SAGE
eReference

--Special page highlighting SAGE's offerings for medical and hospital
libraries

--Instructions for managing online subscriptions on SAGE Journals Online

Promotional tools, including training materials for new customers and
usage driving materials for current customers

--Contact information for regional Library Consortia/Sales managers and
Technical Support

...and much more!

This is the first phase of the launch and as we continue to have updated
materials and product announcements for 2009, we will update the site
accordingly.

If you have any questions regarding the new Librarian Resource Center or
suggestions on how we may improve it further, please let the SAGE
Library Team know by contacting laura.paterson@sagepub.com.

Sincerely,

Valerie Johns
Associate Director
Journals Marketing
SAGE
valerie.johns@sagepub.com
www.sagepub.com
www.sagepub.com/librarians

4. Multilingual Matters/Channel View Transition update

Dear Serialst,

Please see below for a message we are currently distributing to customers
that may also be of interest to the list.

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I wanted to provide you with an update on the transition of Multilingual
Matters Limited (MML) Journals to informaworld, as some of the details of our
original plan have changed.

Transition timeline
All of the former MML/Channel View titles are now available on informaworld
and we have finalised loading all journal content. We had originally planned to
dual host with http://www.multilingual-matters.net, the former online platform
until 28th February. As of today we have installed title-level redirects from the
http://www.multilingual-matters.net site to informaworld.

Online access
Your institution’s online access should have transferred automatically. We
have made access to this content free until the end of February so as not to
cause disruption to your library users whilst we follow up any access queries
we have received.

We do advise that you double check your access to these titles is correct in
the interim. In order to help, a list of titles covered by this transition is
available at: http://www.informaworld.com/mpp/uploads/mlm-titles.xls

Usage statistics
We advise all subscribers to download their usage statistics from the
http://www.multilingual-matters.net site between now and February 28th if
they will be required.

Link resolvers
MML/Channel View content is currently appearing in the feeds we provide to
link resolver intermediaries including Serials Solutions, Ex Libris, TD Net and
Ebsco Industries A-Z. We will add to this as further MML/Channel View content
is made available online at informaworld. All content will be in the February
updates we provide to these suppliers.

Your patience and co-operation in dealing with this migration at what is a busy
time for you is very much appreciated. Do contact the informaworld support
desk at support@informaworld.com if you have need any extra help to make
this transition as smooth as possible for you and your users.

With kind regards,

Jennifer McMillan
Library Marketing Manager
Taylor & Francis Group Journals