A very good question, and one that doesn't just relate to electronic only
subscriptions if online and print journals are dealt with by different
people. At the moment, most of our electronic journals come with a print
subscription and there are few which we only get electronic versions of
apart from ones which are only available online or are free. Our e-journal
project has only been going for a few months and I haven't had the chance
to give this problem much thought.
Our OPAC links to our Intranet E-journal access pages not directly to the
online version. Our Serial Alteration forms will be redesigned to include
electronic resources to make sure that they are passed to me to update the
web pages. However, we currently have no deliberate mechanisms to alert us
to title changes where we only have online versions and rely on publishers
and subscription agents informing us of changes. Because we have so few
online only journals this is not yet a problem, but clearly it will need to
be addressed at some point, so I will be very interested to hear what other
people are doing.
Eileen
At 08:50 09/02/2000 +0000, Peter King wrote:
>May I ask a question of those of you who are subscribing to electronic
>journals which you do not also take in print form, and who are
>creating direct links to those journals from your OPAC or elsewhere?
>
>With a print journal you are (probably) most often alerted to changes
>in title, splits, mergers, cessations, etc, by noticing the change when
>checking in the physical part or by other checkin-related functions
>such as claiming.
>
>What mechanisms have you put in place to make sure that you get this
>information in a timely manner in respect of electronic-only
>subscriptions?
>
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>Peter King
>Deputy Librarian (Technical Services)
>University of Bristol Library
>Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TJ.
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