Electronic Journals

[Glen Davies]

We are looking at the likes of Blackwell's Electronic Journal 
Navigator which will provide a common interface to electronic 
journals from various suppliers, at a cost of course. 
http://eservices.blackwell.co.uk/ejn/
While they don't have a very comprehensive list of journals yet this 
should quickly increase. 

OCLC are also setting up something similar.
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/menu/eco.htm
One advantage of their setup is that they are archiving all 
electronic journals that they provide access to and they also keep a 
record of when your subscriptions started and finished. This means  
you can still access backcopies of journals for the period that your 
sub was current.

> 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  
> 
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Glen Davies
Information Technology Librarian
Christchurch College of Education
Christchurch
New Zealand
glen at rimu.cce.ac.nz
64-3-343 7737
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