Electronic Journals

[Marty Tanner Hughes]

Our library is acquiring an increasing number of subscriptions to 
Web-based journals and other resources. We're looking for a friendly 
way to present these journals to our clientele. When the numbers were 
small, we were able to offer a link from our web site to each journal,
but with Project Muse and JSTOR subscriptions and various publishers 
offering all of their titles online, the numbers seem to demand a different 
approach.

While we catalog our electronic journals, we don't have a web-based 
online catalog (yet), so we're looking for a way to get users to the 
resources from our web site.
 
In addition to subscriptions, we also want to point our users toward 
"free" resources on the Web. Do we mix these in with our "on-campus 
only" subscriptions?

Does anyone have good solutions? Do you list individual journal 
titles or just link to the projects? Would a database help us 
maintain a list of journals? Is an alphabetical list and/or one 
arranged by subject useful to users of your web site? Do you have 
searching facilities to help users find particular journals? What sort 
of workflow do you use in subscribing to electronic resources and 
making them accessible? I'd love to hear about successful methods and 
to see examples of what others are doing.

Thank you for your help.
Marty Tanner Hughes
Asst. Systems Librarian
University of Georgia Libraries
Athens, GA 30602