Re: How do you inform patrons of your electronic journal holdings? Daniel Jones 23 May 2005 14:08 UTC
Here is how we inform our users: 1. We have Voyager. We put information for each paid e-journal subscription in Voyager. We use the same bib record for both print and online holdings. We add a holding record for online versions of a journal. Following are examples of the holdings records in Voyager ANNUAL REVIEW OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY PRINT HOLDING RECORD 852 0 _ |b ONLINE 866 3 0 |8 0 |a v. 11-, 1995- ONLINE HOLDING RECORD 852 0 _ |b ONLINE 856 0 4 |u http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/cellbio |z Online access v. 12-, 1996-. 2. We have a program that twice a day harvests the ONLINE holdings information from Voyager and produces an A-Z list of e-journals on our web site. Following is an example of the entry on our E-journal list for the above title: Annual review of cell and developmental biology. Online access v. 12-, 1996- [this is hotlinked to the URL for the title] 3. We send an irregular newsletter to our scientists that announces changes and additions to the E-journal list. 4. We also have the 1Cate link resolver and all paid subscriptions, plus a variety of open access/free journals (DOAJ, HighWire free journals, PubMed Central journals, etc.) appear on that list, and we have enabled OpenURL-linking in PubMed, Web of Knowledge databases (Web of Science, BIOSIS, PsycINFO), and Google Scholar for all the journals in the 1Cate database. ======================= Daniel H. Jones, M.L.S. Librarian Preston G. Northrup Memorial Library Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research Shipping address: 7620 NW Loop 410 San Antonio, TX 78227-5301 Mailing address: P.O. Box 760549 San Antonio, TX 78245-0549 Tel: 210-258-9426 Fax: 210-670-3313 Email: djones@sfbr.org ======================= -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Zeigler, Amanda Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 3:22 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] How do you inform patrons of your electronic journal holdings? Hello all, We are once again considering how best to manage our e-journal holdings information. I am curious about how other libraries handle this task. Do you and/or your staff manually review and update the holdings information in your catalog? Do you use an automated system such as MARCit to put the information in bib records in your catalog? How about generating an A to Z journal listing using SFX that gives availability information? Are there other possible alternatives that I have not considered? I appreciate any and all helpful hints. Thank you for your feedback. It will help us make a more informed decision. I will provide a summary of responses to the list. Best regards, Amanda Zeigler Serials Librarian Technical Library (505)284-0219 (p) azeigle@sandia.gov