Rosamund,
We have a 'headline' feature on our top level page which announces (with
link) new facilities or training courses, etc. We ran an announcement on
this for our Online Journals database service
http://library.ukc.ac.uk/library/netinfo/extservs/Default.htm
when it was new last year (for about two weeks) and also provide training
sessions on how to use the service. You may feel your users don't need
training but we provide full text access to over 4000 titles (soon to be
over 5000) on over 30 host services (plus we list another 18000 titles
where we don't have full text access but users can access abstracts or
Tables of Contents). We always give links direct to the top level journal
page where possible - users often enter the service with a specific
journal/article in mind and they don't want to navigate through a slow
remote site to find it.
We must have done something right as we had over 30,000 accesses to this
service over 11 months.
I think maybe the secret is having a large enough collection to make it
worth the users while to learn how to use the service. I estimate (and it
is only an estimate) that we have online access to over 1500 titles we
don't take in hardcopy - this is an information resource worth exploring.
Regards,
John Smith,
The Templeman Library,
University of Kent at Canterbury.
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Rosamund Morgan wrote:
> We are finding at the Didsbury site that, in spite of our
> encouragement both at the Enquiry Desk and during induction and
> research sessions, our students are not using our e-journals as
> much as they could be and so we are looking for ways of
> promoting them.We are thinking at the moment in terms of a
> printed leaflet and something on the library web site. I would be
> interested to hear about what others have done in this area and
> whether it's been successful.
> Also, is anyone aware of a method by which we could flag up on
> the electronic databases those e-journal titles to which we have a
> subscription? (I realise there would be a charge for this if such a
> sevice existed).
>
> TIA
>
> Ros Morgan
>
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