What can be equally troubling is when the supplier
of the e-journal fails to recognize the title change,
and continues to list the journal under a former title.
This seems to happen frequently with aggregators.
A user searching for a journal title using the
new, authorized title as listed in the library OPAC, may
fail to locate it in a collection using a earliest title
approach.
-Norm
At 10:13 AM 2/9/00 +0000, you wrote:
>A very good question, and one that doesn't just relate to electronic only
>subscriptions if online and print journals are dealt with by different
>people. At the moment, most of our electronic journals come with a print
>subscription and there are few which we only get electronic versions of
>apart from ones which are only available online or are free. Our e-journal
>project has only been going for a few months and I haven't had the chance
>to give this problem much thought.
>
>Our OPAC links to our Intranet E-journal access pages not directly to the
>online version. Our Serial Alteration forms will be redesigned to include
>electronic resources to make sure that they are passed to me to update the
>web pages. However, we currently have no deliberate mechanisms to alert us
>to title changes where we only have online versions and rely on publishers
>and subscription agents informing us of changes. Because we have so few
>online only journals this is not yet a problem, but clearly it will need to
>be addressed at some point, so I will be very interested to hear what other
>people are doing.
>
>Eileen
>
>At 08:50 09/02/2000 +0000, Peter King wrote:
>>May I ask a question of those of you who are subscribing to electronic
>>journals which you do not also take in print form, and who are
>>creating direct links to those journals from your OPAC or elsewhere?
>>
>>With a print journal you are (probably) most often alerted to changes
>>in title, splits, mergers, cessations, etc, by noticing the change when
>>checking in the physical part or by other checkin-related functions
>>such as claiming.
>>
>>What mechanisms have you put in place to make sure that you get this
>>information in a timely manner in respect of electronic-only
>>subscriptions?
>>
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>>Peter King
>>Deputy Librarian (Technical Services)
>>University of Bristol Library
>>Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TJ.
>>
>>Telephone (0117) 928 8005
>>Fax (0117) 925 5334
>>Email [log in to unmask]
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>>
>>
>Ms Eileen Jamieson
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