Diana,
This is one we have only begun to deal with.
I think I am right in saying that a user can get to a particular
issue via advanced search. You can see something of our current approach
if you look on our e-journals site at
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Library/ej/index.htm
and click on the entry for Economist (U.K.)
David Sowerbutts
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On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Diana Massam wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have a problem relating to the cataloguing of some elctronic
> journals, and would be grateful for some advice.
>
> Here at Manchester Metropolitan University we create catalogue
> records for our full text electronic journals, so that there is a
> link from the web library catalogue directly to the contents page of
> each individual journal. The URL used obviously varies according to
> the service provider e.g. Ingenta, Catchword, Emerald. I'm sure many
> others do the same!
>
> However, we have come up with a problem in cataloguing the full text
> journals available via the various Infotrac databases such as General
> Business File International, Expanded Academic ASAP, Computer
> Database etc.
>
> The URLs (or 'Infomarks') provided to us by the suppliers as links
> to the individual journal titles included in the databases don't
> provide a neat link to a contents page, or list of issues. Instead
> they link only to a list of individual articles from the journal in
> chronological order. The only way for a user to access a specific
> article in a particular issue is to page through the entire list
> until they find it. We are of the opinion that this is not at
> all helpful to our users, and are therefore reluctant to provide
> links such as these in our catalogue.
>
> Have any other list members come across this problem
> with Infotrac full text journals? If so, have you found any
> solutions to the problem or have you decided to live with it?
>
> Any advice or opinions on the topic would be gratefully received.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Diana Massam.
>
>
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