"Archiving" e-journals

[Bill Pardue]

Thanks to those who replied.  Seems like lots of folks are trying to 
think through this same problem.  Suggestions have come in two forms:

1)  Use "print driver" software such as Novell's Envoy or the Adobe 
Acrobat PDFWriter to "capture" the printed versions of pages.  The 
major downside is that you have to sit there and keep printing out 
pages as you find them, naming files, etc.  You also lose the 
"webbiness" of interrelated HTML documents.  This is probably a good 
solution for some "flatter" e-journals, however.

2) Use a downloading tool like Webwhacker (which I heard of for the 
first time today).

I'm trying the Webwhacker solution.  I decided to try it out on one 
web site.  I started downloading around 10am.  It's now 3:50pm and 
it's still downloading the same site.  The depth to which it 
downloads a web site can be set as a preference, but for the site in 
question, you pretty much had to let it get files all the way down 
the tree.  If nothing else, it makes you realize how much goes into 
maintaining even a moderately-sized web site.  If we stick with 
Webwhacker, it looks like we'll just point it at a web site at the 
end of the day, let it go overnight and see what we've got in the 
morning.

Again, thanks for the input!

--Bill Pardue
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    Bill Pardue--Electronic Resources Librarian
    Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Tech.
                Chicago, IL  60616
312-567-3615/312-567-5318 (fax) pardue at charlie.acc.iit.edu
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