In reply to your message, I am the 'electronic journals
co-ordinator for the University of Greenwich. I do this on a full time
basis (working 4 days a week) . My job revolves around the
University electronic information pages web-site where I maintain
the journal links either directly to publishers or via a host
(Swets, Ingenta, Catchword) .
I am required to liase with publishers directly or via our agents
(SwetsBlackwell) with any queries regarding the set-up of
online journals as well as keeping our rsl's informed of the
latest electronic journals news. I work closely with Ann Murphy
our University head of information services, when working out
costings of the latest publishers offers and I try to make some
sense of various 'statistics' we are given.
In the last two years I have worked on the design and set-up of
our A-Z listings of e-journals web-pages ( we now have full text
access to over 3400 titles), and I am responsible for keeping
them up to date and for investigating any access problems
which should arise.
I should add that I enjoy this work immensly.
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From: Ian Winship <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Who manages your ejournals?
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[Resending this request as it appears to have disappeared into the ether the
first time I tried.]
Here at Northumbria the work on managing ejournals (assessing deals and
licences, ordering, checking initial and continuing availability, agreeing
authentication methods, presenting via OPAC and Web pages, troubleshooting,
user queries, etc) is divided between my Electronic Services team and our
Bibliographic Services section (with input from subject staff at the
selection stage), but we are looking to see whether we can improve workflows
and remove possible duplication of effort.
The sig files for messages on this list refer to jobs like:
Electronic Resources Co-ordinator
Electronic Information Development Officer
Information Resources Manager (Electronic Journals)
Electronic Resources Manager
as well as others for folk with subject responsibilities.
I'd be interested to hear from those in academic libraries as to their
ejournal responsibilities and how they fit into their library's
organisational structure.
I will endeavour to summarise the responses.
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Ian Winship
Learning Resources, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
City Campus Library, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
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e-mail: [log in to unmask]
phone: 0191 227 4150 fax: 0191 227 4563
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Christine.A.J.Hayes
Electronic Journals Co-ordinator
University of Greenwich, Woolwich Campus Library
Beresford Street, London S E 18 6BU
Tel.0208 331 8251
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