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Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide

(archival resource, no longer maintained)

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Library issues: collection development, costs, bibliographic control and e-journal aggregations

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/01-spring/index.html

Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship,Spring, 2001. This entire issue is devoted to the theme "Collection Development in in the Internet Age."

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october00/montgomery/10montgomery.html

Montgomery, Carol Hanson. "Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs." D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 10 (October, 2000).

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/journals/

Edwards, Judith. "Electronic Journals: Problem or panacea?" Ariadne, Issue 10 (July, 1997). Compares the processing of electronic and print journals.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/draftplan.html

"Bibliographic Control of Web Resources: A Library of Congress Action Plan," stemming from the Library of Congress Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium: Confronting the Challenge of Networked Resources and the Web, held on November 15-17, 2000. This contains the complete text of papers given at the conference.

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/tgmulerfinal.html

Program for Cooperative Cataloging. "PPC Task Force on Multiple Manifestations of Electronic Resources: Final report." April 20, 2001. This report recommends best cataloging practices for a variety of situations in which content may appear in multiple manifestations, and attempts to lay out principles for when to make separate cataloging records for multiple versions.

Aggregations

A further complication for libraries is the increasing dominance of aggregations of e-journals; that is, collections of e-journals from one or more publishers, accessible through a single search engine and user interface, and providing reference linking within the aggregation. While these provide simplicity of management and access, they are not universally embraced.

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/01-spring/article3.html

Nabe, Jonathan. "E-Journal Bundling and Its Impact on Academic Libraries: Some Early Results." Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship,Spring, 2001. Examines the impact of e-journal packages on library budgets.

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/frazier/03frazier.html

Frazier, Kenneth. "The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal." D-Lib Magazine,Vol. 7, No. 3 (March, 2001). An opinion piece warning against the pitfalls of online journal aggregations.

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april01/04letters.html

"Letters to the Editor." D-Lib Magazine, Vol.7, No.4 (April, 2001). Responses to the Frazier article.

http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jul01/krumenaker.htm

Krumenaker, Larry. "A Tempest in a Librarian's Teapot: EBSCO, ProQuest, Gale Exclusive, and Unique Titles." Searcher,Vol. 9, No. 7 (July/August, 2001). Concerns about exclusivity of journals in aggregations.

http://www.harrassowitz.de/present/ifla01.html

Dorn, Knut. "Aggregation vs. Facilitation: an Agency Response to E-journal Aggregation." Presentation at IFLA, Boston, August, 2001. A concise summary of the pros and cons of e-journal aggregation systems.

Aggregation management

A whole new industry has arisen to help libraries keep track of which journals are included in their subscriptions to aggregations, since the contents of each aggregation often change. These three vendors all provide regularly scheduled lists of the journals that are in the aggregations that the library subscribes to.

SerialsSolutions
TDNet
JournalWebCite

"jake," which stands for "jointly administered knowledge environment," is a product that is being used cooperatively to keep track of metadata for e-journals, abstracting and indexing databases, and e-journal aggregations. The software is freely available, and the hope is that many libraries and vendors will contribute data to the database. The best-known implementations of jake are at http://jake.med.yale.edu/ (Yale University) and http://mercury.lib.sfu.ca/~tholbroo/sfujake/search.cgi (Simon Fraser University).

http://jake.med.yale.edu/docs/jake-overview-serrev.pdf

Chudnov, Daniel, Cynthia Crooker, and Kimberly Parker. "Jake: Overview and Status Report." Serials Review,Vol. 26, No. 4 (2000), p. 12-17.

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