I personally feel arranging e-access is a painful process. It's fine if the
access is paid for separately with print, at least you know the access will
continue as long as we keep the subscription for it. Where access comes free
with print, it becomes complicated. a) It may no longer be free in the
following year, hence we have to keep an eye on them b)If we move the
subscription via a consolidation service with our agent, we lose our
e-access as we have no subscription number from the publisher to use
anymore. We then have to rely heavily on the agent to bring everyone (us and
publishers) up to speed with the e-journal access coordination. I find the
whole process pretty stressful. It would help if every journals comes with a
reference number from the publishers to enable the end-users
register/activate their electronic access regardless whether the journals
are delivered to the agents or customers directly.
Also, getting the subscription numbers from the publishers is not a problem.
What becomes a problem is when I received several subscription numbers for
the same item. Publishers are not known to update their records regularly
anyway, this probably explains it. I then have to spend time verifying
which sub. no to be used.
We could certainly do with a UKSG charter on e-journal management!
Leo
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From: Barbara Merchant [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 05 April 2002 10:10
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Subject: Re: Arranging access to print-with-online journals
> From: Mieko Yamaguchi <[log in to unmask]>
But there must be a less time-consuming way to arrange
> online access to electronic journals...
Are libraries willing to pay more for the agents to extend their role more
comprehensively into this area? Or, given competitive tendering to
consortia, if one
agent started, could the others afford not to follow?
Barbara
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