Dear All
Here at Plymouth we are struggling to get to grips with the Wiley Interscience package and would welcome advice and views from others.
Prior to the takeover we subscribed to over 800 titles through Blackwell Synergy - it was a well designed database, we liked it because it searched just our subscription package and students liked it because they would find nothing but full text articles.
Since the Wiley Interscience takeover we now have to search the entire collection and we haven't found a way of locking the search down to our subscribed collection. We use SFX as our citation linking tool and use Metalib for the metasearching. We wanted to be able to create a set of resources for metasearching that would bring back full text only. At the moment, the way Wiley Interscience is searching, we wouldn't be able to include that package which would mean users missing out on 800+ journals.
My questions are:
* Are we missing something here and there is a way of configuring the package to search only our subscribed collection?
* If the answer to the above is that we can't configure it in that way, why do these publishers think this is an advantage for users? Our experience is that academic staff as well as students just get turned off a resource if the full text articles are hidden away and are constantly clicking through a link only to be told to pay!
Jayne Moss
Senior Subject Librarian
Academic Support
University of Plymouth Library
Drakes Circus
Plymouth
PL4 8AA
Tel: 01752 587116
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