[WEB4LIB] How do you list all of the electronic journals?

[Jeff Wisniewski]

Gary-

We had a static list of about 2,000 titles that was, to say the least,
cumbersome. Most of our titles are through major aggregators, but we also have a
number of standalone titles as well. All are cataloged and in our OPAC.

We're now dynamically generating our electronic journals title list on our
website  using PHP and SQL  pulling the data directly from our library catalog.
They can generate either a list of all titles or a list for a letter of the
alphabet. While it's true that all a user has to do is to use the library
catalog to locate ejournals ( and we've also recently implemented a number of
OPAC limits for electronic products only.....web accessible books only, web
accessible journals only, etc.),  users were used to being able to get the
ejournals list from the website so we were reluctant to do away with it. We're
planning on making it title keyword searchable soon, but haven't yet implemented
that feature.

Jeff Wisniewski
Web Services Librarian

"Masters, Gary E" wrote:

> We have both electronic (full text) journals that we subscribe to
> individually or get with paper subscriptions and those that come in a
> package (ScienceDirect, Dialog and Highwire to name a few) and want one
> listing of all of our journals.  We don't know if (or even how) we can list
> all of the titles.  Our solution is to list the group list as one entry, but
> think it would be better if someone could enter a title and see if we have
> access to it.  I guess we could list all of the individual titles in Dialog
> Select - but they will change and then we have more work to do.
>
> What is the common practice here?
>
> Also, I have some "mouse over" icons that we like, but the Boss thinks the
> shift from image to text is too abrupt.  Is there a way to slow or "smooth"
> the change?
> Just a pointer in the right direction or web site will be enough.  Or even
> to know that there is not a solution would be a help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
> Gary E. Masters
> Librarian (Systems)
> CDRH - FDA
> (301) 827-6893