A note to publishers............. I just came across an example of what you can do to identify missing content. It's short and sweet :) See: http://www.iwaponline.com/jws/toc.htm Volume 47, Issue 5 - "not online" That's all it takes. Thanks again for considering :) barb p.s. Thanks IWA Publishing! barb dietsch | serials coordinator epa library | unc contract staff 109 tw alexander drive | mail code c267-01 research triangle park, nc 27711 phone: 919.541.0726 fax: 919.541.1405 [log in to unmask] Lesley Crawshaw <l.a.crawshaw@HE RTS.AC.UK> To Sent by: An [log in to unmask] informal open cc list set up by the UK Serials Subject Group Re: missing content definition? <LIS-E-JOURNALS@ JISCMAIL.AC.UK> 08/20/2007 06:09 AM Please respond to An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group <LIS-E-JOURNALS@ JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Hi Barb, I agree with your concerns. We also had problems with missing content on Springer i.e. whole issues/volumes of content in the middle of other content when we were trying to set up Serials Solutions in June 2006. As a result we had to do a lot of customization of our access - not something that we really want to do as it increases the time required to maintain such collections on Serials Solutions. We did send Springer a detailed list of @150 queries which could be grouped into 4 categories. 1. content gaps before 1997 2. content gaps after 1997 3. access rights markers 4. journals late in production I did finally receive an email from Springer in March 2007 assuring me that they were working on closing all these gaps. Here are a just a few examples where there are still gaps (I don't have time to go back through all the queries I sent to Springer to see which ones are now resolved as it's really slow going having to move from page to page of the volume and issue display on the "new" Springer site - it's a real pity one can't see all the volumes that are available for a particular journal on the one page): a) Decisions in Economics and Finance - Vol. 20 (1997), 21 (1998) and 22 (1999) missing b) European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience - Vol. 247 (1997) missing c) European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research - Vol. 4 (1996) missing Maybe publishers need to be a bit more open about any gaps that they have and what they are doing to fill them in? Many of these gaps aren't noted in 3rd party services such as Serials Solution meaning users are probably being directed to non-available content etc.. 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 Barb Dietsch Sent: 17 August 2007 16:56 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: missing content definition? Bill and others, I am concerned with not the newest content, but rather with missing articles and whole issues/volumes of content in the middle of other content that is available. I do realize that some publishers have a slight delay in posting their newest journal issues. Below you will find some examples: Missing since it least February 21, 2007: (not yet fixed) Aerobiologia (Springer) http://www.springerlink.com/content/1573-3025 Missing vol. 13 (1997) and vol. 14 (1998) BioControl (Springer) http://www.springerlink.com/content/1573-8248 Missing vol. 41 (1996) and vol. 42 (1997) ************************************************************************** Missing from June 12-August 16, 2007: (June 12 is the date that we discovered the missing content; today it is now fixed) Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A (Taylor & Francis) Missing vol. 70, no. 9 (January 2007) (note that nos. 1-8 & 10-13 were available on June 12th, but not no. 9) ************************************************************************** I have noticed that for the titles we use, Springer and Taylor & Francis seem to have the most missing content. Interesting that they both used to share the same platform, MetaPress. I welcome all comments and advice about how to deal with this. If I have time, I send an email to the publisher about the missing content. barb barb dietsch | serials coordinator epa library | unc contract staff 109 tw alexander drive | mail code c267-01 research triangle park, nc 27711 phone: 919.541.0726 fax: 919.541.1405 [log in to unmask] Bill Cohen <[log in to unmask] com> To Barbara Dietsch/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA 08/17/2007 11:10 cc AM Subject missing content definition? Barb: Can you define missing content? Is this missing backissues, or late titles? - Bill -------- Original Message -------- Subject Re: Use of an informal open list set up by the UK Serials : Group Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:53:41 -0400 From: Barb Dietsch <[log in to unmask]> Reply-T An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group o: <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] I'm not interested in new title launches. I am interested in title change information or archival coverage changes (increases), but I hardly ever see posts about these two categories. Maybe not as sexy as "new title launch". How about information from publishers about when missing content will be restored or added. Taylor & Francis has a lot of missing content for some of the journals we use. Perhaps, if there are copyright considerations (or whatever), the publishers could post to the listserv what the problem is AND put a notice up on the TOC pages. BTW, this missing content is somewhat newer material (2002, etc.) in which articles are available before and after the missing content. My 2 cents. barb barb dietsch | serials coordinator epa library | unc contract staff 109 tw alexander drive | mail code c267-01 research triangle park, nc 27711 phone: 919.541.0726 fax: 919.541.1405 [log in to unmask] <snipped by barb> _____________________________________________________________________