Full-Text/Online periodicals access database

[Eric Tull]

I am responding late to the messages about full-text/online periodicals access
databases, and Peter Scott's web site listing libraries that have implemented
this.  This raises some interesting questions.  

Are these databases supplemental to their library catalogues or separate from
them?  Are they entering these electronic journals in their catalogues, or is
the catalogue being considered passe for electronic journals?  If they are
entering the electronic journals in the catalogue, are they duplicating their
efforts by maintaining an independent database of e-journals?

At University of Calgary Library, we have entered all our electronic journals in
the catalogue.  We are looking at ways that we can pull these journals out of
the catalogue and move them into a database and/or various web pages in a way
that these resources could be updated on a frequent basis from the catalogue.
That way the work of maintaining the e-journals could stay with cataloguing
where it has always been, but we could have the advantages of delivering them
from a web-based database and our web pages.

Are others trying this approach, and what success are you having with it?   

Eric Tull
Public Services Systems Librarian
University of Calgary Library


>Hello,
>I have created a very simple database to provide access to full-text
>journals that we get through our subscription databases
>(http://192.236.50.85/FullTextJournals.html).  However, I am looking into
>expanding it to include stand alone electronic journals and provide a
>number of additional features.  As a result, I would like to find as many
>examples of such databases as possible.  If you have any suggestions, I
>would be really crateful.
>P.S. Most likely I will be using Cold Fusion and Oracle. Since these are
>the tools that our Computing Services support.  Right now the database is
>in MS Access.
>
>Thank you so much,
>
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