[WEB4LIB] question re: integrating

[Eric Hellman]

You're not alone with this.

One development to keep an eye on is jake, a free-data/open-software 
project started at Yale by Dan Chudnov and friends.

An article about jake, "jake: Overview and Status Report", by
Kimberly Parker, Cynthia Crooker, and Dan Chudnov (all from Yale) was
published as Serials Review
26(4):12-17, 2000. A copy of the article (307kb pdf) 
http://jake.med.yale.edu/jake-overview-serrev.pdf
is available by agreement with Serials Review.

Web: http://jake.med.yale.edu/, http://jake.med.yale.edu/docs/about.html

My company offers services and has contributed client software 
intended to make it easy to customize jake for your library; read 
about it from http://jake.openly.com/

Two other small companies offering serials data services are Serials 
Solutions (http://serialssolutions.com) and JournalWebCite 
(http://www.journalwebcite.com/).

I think that one way or another,
1.  periodicals data will come increasingly from outsources.
2. the data will become more dynamic and harder to pin down.

Eric

At 2:23 PM -0800 3/12/01, Renee J. LaPerriere wrote:
>>Greetings all--
>
>>We keep our list of some 1,700 periodical subscriptions (paper and 
>>microform) in an Access database, from which we print reports for 
>>in-library use and produce html documents for our web page.  What 
>>we want to do is to create a single integrated list of all the 
>>periodicals we receive in all formats, including electronic.  We 
>>receive some 7,000 periodicals in ASCII text and/or pdf or related 
>>image through the following database subscriptions: ABI/Inform 
>>Global, Education Plus, and Periodical Abstracts Research II (all 
>>ProQuest Direct), IDEAL, JSTOR, Science Direct, Ethnic NewsWatch, 
>>Health Reference Center, Electric Library, and the databases of 
>>Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis).
>>
>>However, we don't want to re-invent the wheel.  So how are other 
>>libraries integrating their electronic 
>>received-through-database-subscription titles into their general 
>>periodicals lists, for hard copy and webpage purposes?  Do any of 
>>the vendors listed above make available delimited lists of 
>>periodicals in full text/image, and if so how are those being 
>>integrated into your libraries' periodicals lists?  And how do you 
>>handle maintenance of this list, in the face of frequent changes in 
>>what the databases offer in full text/image format?  Any pointers 
>>or suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>
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>Renée LaPerrière de Gutiérrez
>Reference/Special Collections Librarian
>rlaperriere at tamiu.edu
>http://www.tamiu.edu/~rlaperriere/
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>Texas A&M International University
>Killam Library #308
>5201 University Blvd.
>Laredo, TX  78041-1900
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Eric Hellman
Openly Informatics, Inc.
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