Electronic Serials Management

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Electronic Serials Management

• VIVA Content Linking Workshop May 22, 2003
• Jamie Redwine, Hollins Univ
• Leslie OBrien, VA Tech

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Overview

• E-Serials Management Issues
• The products
• Discussion
• Current Issues
• How can VIVA help?

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E-serials Management

• an A-Z list of librarys FT electronic access
  journals and print holdings (optional)
• tool to organize holdings, subscriptions,
  presentation, etc.
• the first step towards the D2D vision

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D2D Scale

• Stage I OPAC access to print holdings and some
  online journals
• Stage II OPAC access to print and separate
  online lists of journals available electronically
• Stage III Journal title level access to online
  journals from OPAC, online lists aggregator
  databases
• Stage IV Article level access between aggregator
  databases

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What do patrons want?

• To know which journals the library has access to
• To determine if full text is available
• To easily get to the full-text

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Issues for libraries

• Managing serial titles
• Changes, adds, drops, overlap
• How to represent titles to the user
• Cohesive, comprehensive, integrated list
• How to judge effectiveness of our online
  collections
• Usage, avoid duplication, accuracy of links
  info
• How to maximize full-text availability to the end
  user

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Serials Management Services

• Jake (Yale University)
• SerialsSolutions
• TDNet
• Gold Rush (CARL)
• EBSCO A-Z
• Journal Finder (UNC-Greensboro)

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SerialsSolutions - Products

• A-Z title lists
• MARC records
• Article Linker
• Journal Linker
• Data Management Service

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TDNet Products

• Electronic and print journals
• Catalog Maintenance Service
• Statistics Reports Generator
• Passwords and access codes for libraries
  consortia
• Customized SDI current awareness profiles
• Local searching of current TOCs

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EBSCO A-Z

• EBSCO A-Z
• Electronic Journal Service
• LinkSource link resolver

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Survey Results Fall 2002

• 33 respondents
• 29 libraries offering web-based list of
  electronic journal titles
• 48 already using an e-serials mgt service
• 87 using Serials Solutions
• 88 using or considering

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Where are we now?

• Whats the most difficult part of e-serials
  management?
• What needs are being met by e-serials management
  products?
• What products are we interested in? Using?
• Whats working, whats not?

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How can VIVA help?

• Current awareness and information sharing
• Training and workshops
• Vendor partnerships
• Negotiate deals with specific vendors
• Create a union list
• Explore open source options