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looks like something that needs automating then...any ideas? Barbara ___________________________________________________________ Barbara Merchant Information Services Manager SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research Freeman Centre, University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QE Phone: 01273 873528 Fax: 01273 685865 Web: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/ SPRU Library catalogue: http://sprulib.central.susx.ac.uk/ __________________________________________________________ -- Begin original message -- > From: "J.W.T.Smith" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:05:02 +0100 > Subject: Re: E-jnls check in > To: [log in to unmask] > Reply-To: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group > <[log in to unmask]> > > Colin, > > I remain to be convinced that this work is cost-effective. We have over > 28,000 titles (over 24,000 unique) and it would be full-time job to check > all of these often enough to find missing titles before the users do. > > In fact I don't think it would possible - 10,000 users, even if they only > averaged 1 minute a day in the e-journal service, equals 6.5 staff > working 24 hours a day. We have around 1200 users a day using the > e-journals service and I suspect they spend more than 10 minutes per > visit. > > Regards, > > John Smith. > > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Colin Sinclair wrote: > > > There seems to me no way of escaping the headaches of ejournal > > provision. We have invested in better catalogue provision through data > > from third-party sources, this has improved coverage on the catalogue > > and enhanced the accuracy of e-holdings description. It has not been a > > panacea, and mistakes occur with the data and with inadequate provision > > from publishers. There is more to be done here in using the > > functionality of our LMS (Millennium) and we have plans to update > > catalogue records and the coverage information in our link resolver > > simultaneously from a single data source. Ask me again at Christmas how > > this is going. > > > > I'm reluctant to rely on user complaints as a way of checking for > > "missing issues", it is our job to ensure that the catalogue gives > > accurate information. To that end, we check lists of journals to ensure > > that the what the catalogue says we have access to is, in fact, what can > > be accessed. Yes, it is an enormous task, but we find errors often > > enough to make it one worth doing. > > > > Colin. > > ------------------------------------------------- > > Colin Sinclair > > Head of Bibliographic Services > > University of Stirling > > STIRLING > > FK9 4LA > > Tel: 01786 467218 > > Fax: 01786 466866 > > email: [log in to unmask] > > ------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of J.W.T.Smith > > Sent: 04 October 2006 14:43 > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: E-jnls check in > > > > 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 > >> > > > > -- > > The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by > > charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may > > be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated > > in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such > > person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone > > and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is > > prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this > > message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. 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