For many years, the library has sent withdrawn and discarded copies of certain print journals to specific community members and departments who had requested them. Continue reading
Change to Print Journal Discard Policy
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ArticleSelect “token” access for Wiley journals
We have changed how we access most of the journals published by Wiley. Instead of subscribing to a limited number, we now subscribe to the ones we access most frequently, and provide access to other Wiley titles through what Wiley calls ArticleSelect tokens. Continue reading
JSTOR Journals – 2 new collections added
JSTOR – Collections V & VI added
Collection V title list. Description: “…important literary reviews and state historical journals. It will also widen the scope of core disciplines in the arts and humanities, such as philosophy, history, classics, religion, art and art history, and language and literature.”
Collection VI title list. Description: “…extends JSTOR’s coverage in disciplines across the social sciences, with clusters focused in economics, education, linguistics, political science, and area studies.”
See other library resources added recently here.
Wiley launches new platform this weekend
We access over 1000 online journals provided by Wiley (Wiley InterScience and Wiley-Blackwell). This coming weekend, Wiley will be launching its new platform for online access, the Wiley Online Library.
We have been notified that Wiley titles will not be accessible between 4 a.m. Saturday and noon on Sunday. If previous experience is any indication, there may well be at least sporadic problems for some time beyond that.
If you have trouble accessing Wiley titles after noon on Sunday, please send me an email.
We will be keeping an eye on this transition, and I will relay updates by adding comments to this blog post.
Access to e-content: permanent or not?
We have online access to a large number of journals and newspapers. The terms governing our access vary considerably, and can change with the passage of time. One of the most important aspects of our access is the extent to which it is dependable and permanent. Following is an attempt to illustrate the range of stability of our electronic offerings.
The most stable and permanent situation is when we have a subscription with the publisher to a specific journal or packaged group of journals (e.g. Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis). In this case we have guaranteed permanent access to all material published during the years of our subscription. Often we will also have access to a backfile of material published before our subscription started. In some cases we are assured continuing access to this backfile, while in other cases ongoing access to any material dating from before the start of our subscription is not guaranteed. Continue reading
How Many Journals Does The Library Subscribe To?
I was asked this today, and it seemed like such an innocuous question. So I decided to do some investigating. I was expecting, oh, I don’t know, maybe 5,000 or so. Was I ever wrong!
First, the definition of the question took some untangling. Does this mean current subscriptions? Does it mean individual subscriptions that we choose specifically to receive, or does it count the titles we receive as part of “big deals” from vendors like Elsevier? Does it mean stuff we pay cold hard cash for, or does it include freebies, such as the 4000+ open access journals that are readily accessible on the web (and which are all included in the library catalog)? Or does it mean just the print stuff we receive in hard copy?
After some hemming & hawing, I decided the most interesting questions were: 1) how many journal titles do we have access to altogether, both current & ceased? and 2) how many journal titles do we currently subscribe to, regardless of format, regardless of cost?
With help from the cataloging, acquisitions, and serials departments, I discovered that:
1) we currently have access to an astounding total of approximately 42,443 journal titles; and
2) of these, approximately 38,000 are current.
Furthermore, about 5,100+ are print titles (current & ceased) and we have free web access to about 4,300+ titles from the Directory of Open Access. Catalog records for all of these titles are in MIDCAT.
This is an incredible resource for our students and faculty (and staff!), and many thanks to all the people — acquisitions & collection development folks, catalogers, systems people, infrastructure people, librarian liaisons & selectors, etc. etc. — who have worked hard over the years to make this possible. And this is just one small part of the many many many services LIS provides. Really amazing.