We are an acute hospital NHS Trust library service with 141 of our subscribed journals available electronically. We use Athens authentication rather than Shibboleth.
It is significant that Ebsco themselves have not been promoting EJS for a long time. It was conspicuous by its absence at the 2010 Ebsco roadshows, so when I asked whether this was because A-to-Z was the way forward, the answer was in the affirmative. A-to-Z can do many more things. Therefore we switched from EJS Enhanced last year to EBSCO A-to-Z and think it is well worth it.
You can add all sorts of free online content to the A-to-Z too (for example PubMed Central, DOAJ and all the EBSCO free access collections, of which there are plenty), online content purchased direct from other vendors (e.g. Elsevier or Wiley) and you can upload your print journal holdings too to consolidate on one access point. You can also link in bibliographic databases (not just those provided by EBSCO) and there is support for OpenURL and other link resolvers. We currently make around 17,000 full text journals available via our A-to-Z that we'd otherwise have to trawl all around the Internet to track down. Usage stats are easy to obtain - live throughout the day if you like. You'll find you'll have to do quite a bit of admin/maintenance yourselves to begin with (though EBSCO will populate it with all your subscribed content), but this is an absolute doddle. Really easy to use and a big hit with our library members and library staff in the year that we have been using it. I say go for A-to-Z.
hope this helps,
Helga
Helga J. Perry, Electronic Systems & Resources Librarian
Clinical Sciences Library
University Hospital
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Subject: [lis-e-resources] Ebsco EJS
Do any other FE Colleges subscribe to online journal content via EJS? We are currently in the process of switching to authenticating our resources with Shibboleth and EJS is not Shibboleth compliant. Ebsco is recommending that we subscribe to their A-Z service, which is £1000. We only subscribe to 40 titles electronically, so we feel this is definitely not a cost effective solution! Does anyone else use Shibboleth and EJS?
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