journals online

[spober at manhattan.edu]

Earlier this year I did a consolidated browsable list of links to the 
journals we had access to through the various vendors (UMI, Lexis-Nexis, 
etc.) at the time: 
http://web1.manhattan.edu/library/journals/jinfo.html

That was done by putting the journal lists from the vendors into
spreadsheet program, doing various sorts, then adding HTML to link to
the specific vendor sites.  It was a little tedious to do but not
particularly challenging from a technical standpoint.  

However, some of the links posted here were searchable journal databases
and very impressive.  Could some of the creators of the searchable lists
tell us a little about just how they created those?  

Also, a related question for those of you who create and maintain these
journal databases.  What are you doing about the journal lists from
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe?  The downloadable source database does
not distinguish full-text titles from those for which only abstracts are
availabl (or at least it didn't do this the last time I downloaded it.) 
Their own searchable source list is also somewhat buggy, in that the
links to "Search This Title" sometimes go to the wrong database segment. 

I went to some of the library sites that had searchable lists from the
URL's posted on Web4lib and I notice that for the individual journal
records, the links usually go either to the main gateway page into the
vendor's site or else they link to the vendor's journal list.  I know
that for selected titles, a few libraries have chosen to write URL's
that link directly to a search for the individual publication, but AFAIK
those links are usually done by hand-coding.  Still, that would be ideal
for most users - to click from the library's list of journals available
in full-text directly to the search page that specifies a search in that
specific publication.  Has anyone managed to automate the creation of
those links for any of their vendors?  

Best,
Stacy Pober
Information Alchemist
Manhattan College Libraries
spober at manhattan.edu
raingoddess at juno.com