Hello Janet,
For a while we did try to add all the e-journals we could access to our
catalogue but had to give up when the scale of titles available for free
went through the roof. Our decision to stop doing this coincided with
the purchase of SIRSI Resolver. Now we add packages like DOAJ to
resolver but don't catalogue them as a matter of course.
Our policy now is to catalogue all titles we have a paid subscription
for plus any freebies which are considered especially important by
academics/subject librarians. This obviously means that our users will
miss out on some electronic full text if they rely solely on our
catalogue but we do stress to them how important it is to search the
link resolver. Not a perfect solution but given the available staff
time it is the best we can do.
Regards
Bryan
Bryan Jones
Acquistions Librarian
York St John Enterprises Ltd
York St John University
Lord Mayor's Walk
York
YO31 7EX
Tel 01904 876383
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Subject: Catalogue records for free journals
At Oxford Brookes University, we have been creating catalogue records
for all the e-journals which we can access as we want to provide a
single route for all our journals, whether in print or electronic.
With the growth of resources such as the Directory of Open Access
Journals, this is proving an almost impossible task. We want to provide
access to these resources for our users, so have added the titles on the
A-to-Z service from Ebsco which we use. However, we are not certain
whether creating catalogue records for them all is feasible or even
desirable.
I would be very interested to hear how other libraries are dealing with
this issue.
Many thanks.
Janet Frost
Head of Acquisitions
Oxford Brookes University Library
Tel 01865 483153
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