I would add, Claire, that even licences that list the content are no
safeguard against those titles being removed, especially if those titles
are published on behalf of small societies. We have been caught out
there on more than one occasion.
Best wishes
Louise
Louise Cole
Electronic Resources Team Leader
Health Sciences Library
Level 7 Worsley Building
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
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From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of C.E.Grace
Sent: 14 February 2006 14:54
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Subject: Re: E-Journal access through full text databases
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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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
Adelphi Campus
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