The idea of 'checking in' makes no sense in an e-world. In a p-world
individual copies could go missing and had to be chased but there is no
individual copy in the e-world. If an article or issue is not available to
you it is likely it is not available to everyone else too. It only needs
one subscriber to notice it is missing and complain to the publisher for
it to be made available to every subscriber.
Also your users become your checkers. In a p-world a user can't tell if a
copy is missing or just being used by someone else but in an e-world they
can see if an issue or article is missing and complain to you. With the
millions of users out there it would have to ve a very specialist title if
no-one missed it for a week.
One could speculate (no flames please) that if no-one missed a title would
it matter that it was missing? :-).
Regards,
John Smith,
The Templeman Library,
University of Kent, UK.
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Sally Elizabeth Rimmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are increasingly switching over to e-only versions of journals and
> I wondered how other institutions managed virtual "checking in" of
> issues if they did it at all. It is a costly business to pay for
> e-access and not receive it. However, it would be an enormous task to
> check every journal individually.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Sally Rimmer
> E-Resources Co-ordinator
> Library and Learning Resources
> University of Derby
> Kedleston Road
>
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