We have adopted a very cautious attitude towards cancelling anything on the basis of access being available via fulltext databases where titles are not explicitly named in the licence. This is because we have had problems when access to a particular title or range of titles has been written into a course and then that access has disappeared.
It can be very difficult to find alternative sources for the titles that you need and the individual sub or Nesli-type of licence where titles are listed is really the safest option for continued online access. Publishers, it seems, can withdraw content without a great deal of notice.
Keeping the print archives is a more separate issue for us than perhaps it is elsewhere because our students need online access and print offers them no alternative. We are going to be trying to devise a proper strategy for this and for all our print / electronic buying in the very near future.
Best wishes
Claire Grace
Resources Manager
The Open University Library
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From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group on behalf of Olwyn Reynard
Sent: Tue 14/02/2006 14:15
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Subject: Re: E-Journal access through full text databases
We subscribe to two full text databases via Ebsco - Academic Search Elite
and Business Source Premier, to ABI Inform via Proquest and to Expanded
Academic via Infotrac.
We have cancelled some (a very small percentage so far) subscriptions to
journals that are included in those databases, but we have not discarded the
print archives. We are aware of the risk that the publisher could withdraw
content, but so far this has not affected any of these titles. If it did we
would have to consider alternative ways of obtaining access.
Olwyn Reynard
Olwyn Reynard, Electronic Resources Librarian, Kimberlin Library, De
Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH
Tel 0116 2577865
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From: Anna Sale [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 14 February 2006 12:34
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Subject: E-Journal access through full text databases
Dear All,
Like a lot of academic institutions we are moving where available to
e-only access for journals and removing long archival runs of print
journals from the shelves where archival access is available online.
For a few of the print journals we subscribe to this archival and
current online access is available through full text databases such as
Infotrac. Our concern in cancelling the print with regards to these
titles is the reliability of continued access to titles through full
text databases. I would be very interested to know if any other
institutions have explored this and as a result have cancelled their
current print subscriptions, moved print archives to storage or even
discarded their print archives on the based of e-access through a full
text database?
Many thanks in advance
Anna Sale
Anna Sale
Electronic Resources and Metadata Team Leader
Information Services Division
University of Salford
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