You highlight an issue relevant to us all - devoting valuable time, effort
and technology to titles we don't really want because we are forced to take
them as part of a bundle. Are those 700 titles given any added legitimacy by
virtue of having Queen's Belfast as a subscriber?
Colin.
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Colin Sinclair
Head of Bibliographic Services
University of Stirling
STIRLING
FK9 4LA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Rawson [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 20 October 2000 14:29
> To: goldfinch
> Cc: lis-e-journals
> Subject: Re: Promotion of e-journals
>
> Yes, you are right that 3,000 accesses per week to 3,000
> journals is one per week on average. So far this month we
> have had 9099 accesses; 700 journals have not been used at
> all, and 91 have been used 10 times or more (highest 244).
>
> One of the reasons for the low response to some titles is
> that we get many journals through global publisher deals
> (principally Science Direct and ABI-Inform) and so they do
> not necessarily correspond with our research interests. I
> hope the market can develop away from this model in the
> future and allow us to target those titles we really want.
>
> Stuart
>
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:50:49 +0100 "E.P. Goldfinch"
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > My response is intended to be seen by all!
> >
> > I have read with interest the recent and past correspondence concerning
> > access to e-journals. Much of the correspondence seems to indicate that
> > access to e-journals is not so simple and popular with readers after
> all. I
> > would be intrigued to know which publishers, small or large, actually
> find
> > a net cost benefit from the ventures. I was very sceptical at the time
> of
> > writing my articles that appeared in the recent issue of 'Learned
> > Publishing' but I am even more convinced now that it is very unlikely
> that
> > small publishers would gain by going on-line. I was most intrigued by
> the
> > figures provided by Stuart Rawson from Belfast, namely 3000 accesses per
> > week for 3000 journals available. My simple arithmetic tells me that
> that
> > is one access per journal per week, on average, and if any journal gets
> 10
> > accesses 9 other get none (on average). Perhaps I misunderstood.
> >
> > E.P. Goldfinch
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