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Hi Janet, We've gone down a different route to Terry. With limited staffing resources and the never ending tasking of trying to track who was publishing what, platform changes, title changes, publisher takeovers, title takeovers, title cessations and of course trying to provide links to all the open access journals, we finally abandoned trying to do this manually. We made a decision about a year ago to move to SerialsSolutions as a means for updating our catalogue and as our link resolver (following our difficulties with LinkFinderPlus). This product makes it very easy to add open access titles to your OPAC. There remain challenges in maintaining those titles that we have access to as subscriptions or as part of big deals (partly because of the increasing complexities of these in many cases), but SerialsSolutions have always been very responsive to the torrent of queries we send them on a weekly basis and we are working closely with them as well as certain publishers to try and drive improvements in their knowledgebase to make the task of updating our rights to content more manageable. One of the recent challenges has been to encourage the splitting of the archive products (the backfiles) from the current content (the frontfiles) and we are pleased with the progress so far. The quality of our OPAC has definitely benefited from this decision. Cheers Lesley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant, Learning and Information Services University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ email: [log in to unmask] phone: 01707 284662 fax: 01707 284666 list owner: [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 Janet Frost Sent: 28 March 2007 15:01 To: [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask]