Ejournals: Subscription Models and Access Modes

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E-journals Subscription Models and Access Modes
J. Shoba National Centre for Science Information
(NCSI)Indian Institute of Science Bangalore -
560 012 (E-Mail shoba_at_ncsi.iisc.ernet.in)
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E-Journals Subscription Models and Access Modes

• What are E-Journals?
• Advantages of E-Journals
• Subscription Models
• Access Modes
• E-Journal publishers
• Alternative approaches
• Related sources

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What are E-Journals?

• Electronic journals may be defined broadly as
  any journal, magazine, e'zine, webzine,
  newsletter or type of electronic serial
  publication which is available over the Internet.
  Publication of E-journals has become the main
  area of thrust for most of the publishers in the
  area of Science and Technology.

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Advantages of E-Journals

• Saves time
• Ease of access
• Faster medium of communication
• Saves storage space

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Subscription Models

• Academic Library
• Academic Consortia
• Corporate
• Public Library

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Access Modes

• Authentication via User ID/password and IP
  Address
• Authentication via IP address

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ACM

• The ACM Digital Library has been developed by
  ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) .
• Three kinds of packages are available
• Digital Library Core Package
• Digital Library master special interest group
  package
• Digital Library conference Package

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ACM

• Terms for all digital library packages
• 1.Three simultaneous users are permitted for any
  of these packages it will cost 175 per added
  user.
• 2. The subscribed library may provide ACM with as
  many IP addresses as desired, any class IP
  address!
• URL www.acm.org/dl

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American Institute of Physics

• The AIP Online Journal Service is available to
  individuals and institutions that subscribe to
  one or more of the AIP print journals.
• For individuals,username and password are
  provided during subscription.
• For Institutions, a maximum of 10 IP
  addresses/ranges is allowed. This has to be
  provided at the time of subscription.
• URL www.aip.org/ojs/service.html

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ASM

• ASM journal Online is the online journal service
  offered by the American Society of Microbiology.
• An Authorized Site is an institutional (e.g.,
  university) library located within a single
  building.
• Authentication is done by IP address.
• There is currently no limit on the number of
  readers.
• A personal research alert service Cite Track is
  being offered.
• URL intl-journals.asm.org/

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Ebsco

• EBSCO Online is based on the traditional services
  that EBSCO Subscription Services provides.
• EBSCO online hosts more than 2,100 electronic
  journals. Administrators can choose from a
  variety of authentication methods to make access
  easy for users depending on their needs.
• URL www.ebsco.com

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Elsevier Science

• Science Direct is the product of Elsevier
  science, the premier electronic journal publisher
  on the Internet which publishes nearly 1000
  English language scientific journals.
• Contents Direct is an alerting service for
  Elsevier Science journals.
• URL www.sciencedirect.com

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IDEAL

• Ideal is the online library of electronic
  journals from Academic Press, selected journals
  from W.B.Saunders Ltd. and Churchill Livingstone
  Ltd.
• APPEAL permits copying and transmission of
  articles from IDEAL within the consortium, but
  prohibits all copying and transmission of the
  electronic files outside the consortium.
• The pricing model is
• institutional print price 100,
• electronic only access 110,
• print and electronic access 135.
• URL www.idealibrary.com

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IEEL

• The IEEE/IEE Electronic Library is brought out by
  the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
  Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of
  Electrical Engineers (IEE).
• Discount is available if the print version is
  being subscribed by the organization. Special
  Academic Pricing is available. Authentication is
  done by checking the Username and Password.
• URL www.ieee.org/ieonline

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Ingenta Journals

• Ingenta Journals is a free service that can be
  accessed by users world-wide.
• Free access to the full text of the articles held
  in Ingenta Journals is dependant on individual or
  institutional subscription rights and the
  arrangements made by the publishers.
• It is also possible to enter the service as a
  guest user. This allows to view bibliographic
  details and abstracts of the articles, and to
  access some full text articles on a pay-per-view
  basis.
• URL www.ingenta.com

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Institute of Physics

• Three kinds of services are offered by the
  Institute of Physics
• 1.Standard Service
• 2. Enhanced Service
• 3.Remote Service
• It is not possible to subscribe to electronic
  form only. The electronic transmission of copies
  of articles for inter-library loan purposes is
  not allowed.
• URL www.iop.org/EJ/welcome

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Kluwer Online

• Kluwer Online is the product of Kluwer publishers
  
• If an institution requires both versions, a
  surcharge of 20 will be applicable. There are
  three kinds of subscriptions
• 1.Standard SubscriptionsSubscription to as many
  journals in either electronic only form or
  combined with a paper subscription.
• 2.Single Site License If there are a large
  number of holdings from Kluwer, the institution
  may negotiate a site license.
• 3.Multi-Site/Consortia Site License A consortia
  may negotiate a license for all its member
  institutions.
• URL www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/kluweronline

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Link

• LINK is an information service created for the
  Internet by the science publisher Springer.
• Authentication is done by checking user names
  and passwords and, in the case of institutional
  users, IP addresses.
• LINK is not restricted to the Springer
  publishing group other publishers take advantage
  of this service by publishing their journals
  within LINK. Email alerting service is available.
  
• URL link.springer.de, link.springer-ny.com

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Royal Society of Chemistry

• The RSC journals are available from the RSC Web
  Site. The individual journal home pages contain
  a link to the 'Online Journal and Contents
  Lists'.
• Access is controlled by username and password
  and, from January 1999, by IP address.
• During subscription,the Subscriber's address plus
  all Subscriber's locations within that same city
  or within a five (5) mile eight (8) km radius
  of the Subscriber's address could be given.
  Outlying field stations could also be included in
  the Subscriber's Site provided (i) they are
  wholly owned or run by the Subscriber and (ii)
  the number of Authorised Users at the field
  station is less than 10 of the number of
  Authorised Users at the Subscriber's Site.
• URL www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/ejs.htm

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Synergy

• Synergy, the online electronic journals library
  is the product of Blackwell Science publishers
  and Munksgaard , a Scandinavian publisher.
  Individuals can access through a username and
  password . Institutions can access Synergy
  through IP (Internet Protocol) address.
• Individual articles can also be purchased on a
  pay-per-view basis.
• Blackwell Science Online Only Price 90 of
  Print Price
• Blackwell Science Online Paper Combined Price
  110 of Print Price
• Munksgaard titles are available online as part
  of the paper subscription.
• URL www.blackwell-synergy.com

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Wiley Interscience

• Wiley InterScience is the online journals service
  from John Wiley Sons.
• 1. Institutional Users
• 2. Individual Users
• Wiley might refuse to grant license to an
  institution claiming a range of I.P. address, as
  it represents more than one campus according to
  them.
• URL www.interscience.wiley.com

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Alternative Approaches

• ICAAP(International Consortium for Alternative
  Academic Publication) www.icaap.org/
• SPAARC(The Scholarly publishing and Academic
  Resources Coalition) www.arl.org/sparc/index.html

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Related Sites

• Newsletter on Serial Pricing Issues. To
  subscribe to the newsletter send a message to
  LISTPROC_at_UNC.EDU saying SUBSCRIBE PRICES YOUR
  NAME. www.lib.unc.edu/prices/
• LIBLICENCE- Licensing Digital Information
  www.library.yale.edu/llicense/index.html
• Licensing Models- www.licencingmodels.com