[Web4lib] Federated search products and FullText/PeerReviewlimiting

[David Walker]

Hey Jim,

SFX tracks journals that did not resolve to full-text or print.  That
can be a very handy collection development tool.  One of my colleagues
here at Cal State San Marcos published an article on that very topic:

Mark Stengel (2004) "Using SFX to Identify Unexpressed User Needs,"
Collection Management.  Vol. 29 Issue 2, p7-14.

--Dave

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David Walker
Web Development Librarian
Library, Cal State San Marcos
760-750-4379
http://public.csusm.edu/dwalker
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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Jim Campbell
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 6:50 AM
To: 'Web4Lib'
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Federated search products and
FullText/PeerReviewlimiting

I've been away and am just catching up on this interesting thread. One
added
point to the issue of links to titles that aren't available.  It would
be
nice if the stats packages from the resolver vendors included a list of
unavailable journals with data on how often they were requested and what
years were needed. That would give libraries a chance to do something
about
the turnaways.

Given that resolver use will never be a complete picture of journal use,
data on what's not found really would be more useful than the data most
resolvers now provide on what was found, though adding that useful
feature
would make life harder for the salespeople who could no longer just say
"and
of course we're fully COUNTER compliant" and go on to something more
interesting.

- Jim Campbell
Campbell at Virginia.edu

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