Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 16:03:55 -0500
From: Carol Green <Carol.Green@USM.EDU>
Subject: E-journals in online services

Hi....I'm hoping for some ideas from all you pros out there.

We currently subscribe to two online services, EBSCOHost and
ProQuest Online, both of which provide access to around 1500
journals in electronic format, some of which are full text.  Both
services provide a list of the journals indexed which is accessible
through their websites.  Individual titles from the list are not
accessible in our local online catalog.

To serve the user, we feel the e-journal titles need to be in the
online catalog with a "pointer" or URL to EBSCOHost or ProQuest
or sometimes both.  We want to be able to delete titles easily in the
event of cancellation of a subscription.  Rather than searching OCLC
and exporting MARC records if available or doing full original cataloging,
we propose the creation of a local record with a minimal number of fields
necessary to direct the user to the online services where that journal is
found.  We really don't want to "hang" the URL on the print record if there
is one.

Is anyone else working with the same situation?  Are you adding the titles
from the online services to your catalog or not?  Any comments or
ideas would be welcome.  Thanks!
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Carol D. Green
Serials Librarian
University Libraries
The University of Southern Mississippi
Box 5053
Hattiesburg, MS  39406-5053
Carol.Green@usm.edu
(601)266-4476   (601)266-6033 fax
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