Our JournalSeek database and 1Cate linking components allow you to
put exactly this capability on a library website.
Here's an example of this capability (customized for UA Ft Smith).
http://westark.1cate.com/servlet/Linker?issn=0023-7639
(Land Economics)
(try year=2001, page =327)
Eric
At 10:52 AM +0000 2/28/02, Louise Cole wrote:
>I'd agree completely - in fact, this has come up at enquiry desks and so on
>as a feature users would like. It is all to do with speed and any extra
>stages which interfere with that do cause problems. We do use Highwire as
>an example in training of how an article can be quickly reached, and it has
>been a popular feature. If some of the larger journal collections (Science
>Direct, ingenta, Kluwer etc.) offered this it would be a bonus.
>
>Louise
>
>Louise Cole BA ALA
>Electronic Resources Co-ordinator
>Brotherton Library
>University of Leeds
>Leeds LS2 9JT
>
>tel 0113 233 5502 (0113 343 5502 from mid-March)
>fax 0113 233 5561 (0113 343 5561 from mid-March)
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>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Frank Norman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: 28 February 2002 10:10
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: E-journal search features
>>
>>
>> I've had a comment recently from one of our users about the search
>> tools that publishers provide and don't provide for their e-journals.
>>
>> My user comments that what he most commonly wants to be able to do is
>> to be able to quickly get to *known* items. Commonly journals allow
>> you to search by author, title, abstract words - useful for resource
>> discovery but not for quick access to known items. Ideally we want
>> to go to a particular journal's home page, type in the volume number
>> and first page number of the reference to an article and then get
>> straight to that article.
>>
>> Journals published online through Highwire Press DO have this kind of
>> search feature, as does Synergy, but other publishers' platforms
>> (e.g. ScienceDirect, IDEAL, Interscience, LINK) do not.
>>
>> Do others agree that this is a very desirable feature?
>>
>> Frank Norman National Institute for Medical Research
>> Librarian The Ridgeway, Mill Hill
>> London NW7 1AA, UK
>> tel 020 8 913 8629 email [log in to unmask]
>> fax 020 8 913 8534
>>
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