Electronic Journal Management Systems: Experiences from the Field

by Ives; Gary W

• ISBN13: 9780789025951
• ISBN10: 0789025957
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Discover how to manage your library's electronic journals--with tips from those who've already met the challenge! The explosive growth of electronic journals presents unique challenges for libraries. Electronic Journal Management Systems: Experiences from the Field comprehensively examines these complex topics, including explanations of the automated systems libraries have developed or adopted, licensing issues, and the provision of access to electronic journals. Respected library professionals discuss their own experiences in the implementation and use of electronic journal management systems, helping readers to easily apply effective strategies in their own library. Electronic Journal Management Systems: Experiences from the Field reveals the available technologies, difficulties encountered, and successes of different librarians who met the challenge to implement management systems, giving readers an inside glimpse of what they themselves may encounter when planning their own system. The growth of electronic journals in libraries is addressed, along with helpful descriptions of management systems and link resolvers, including systems like SFX, Serial Solutions, TDNet, and EBSCO LinkSource. The book includes screen shots, tables, and diagrams to clearly illustrate concepts and information. Electronic Journal Management Systems: Experiences from the Field discusses a wide range of implementation and use issues, including: using Microsoft Excel to manage serial subscriptions better integration of management of electronic resources through library vendors one-stop serials management and access the selection process of a journal management system the preparation for implementation and subsequent transition process the Web site as a listing and finding tool the benefits of switching to an SFX environment creating a customized database for multiple systems the Innovative Interfaces, Inc. partnership with libraries to develop a module to manage electronic resources based on the work of the Digital Library Federation's Electronic Resources Management Initiative the evaluation and implementation process of a beta test library with an integrated library system vendor to develop a management system developing a universal management scheme for electronic resources Electronic Journal Management Systems: Experiences from the Field brings the latest strategies, technologies, and cutting-edge ideas to every library professional grappling with ways to manage the flow of electronic journals in a library.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(2)
Gary Ives
The Master Serial List at Montana State University-A Simple, Easy to Use Approach	3	(14)
Susan P. Marshall
Jodee L. Kawasaki
Electronic Resource Management: Transition from In-House to In-House/Vendor Approach	17	(10)
Robert Alan
One-Stop: Serials Management with TDNet	27	(8)
Peggy S. Cooper
Dan Lester
Taming the E-Journal Jungle: The University of South Carolina's Experience with TDNet	35	(8)
Karen McMullen
Derek Wilmott
Implementing EBSCO's A-to-Z and LinkSource Products for Improved Electronic Journal Management	43	(12)
Virginia A. Lingle
Evolutionary Approach to Managing E-Resources	55	(16)
Richard P. Jasper
Laura Sheble
Transition to E-Journals at Texas A&M University, 1995-2004	71	(8)
Gary Ives
Can SFX Replace Your Homegrown Periodicals Holding List? How the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Made the Transition	79	(10)
Jenifer S. Holman
Customized Electronic Resources Management System for a Multi-Library University: Viewpoint from One Library	89	(14)
Janis F. Brown
Janet L. Nelson
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed
Integrating and Streamlining Electronic Resources Workflows via Innovative's Electronic Resource Management	103	(22)
Laura Tull
Janet Crum
Trisha Davis
C. Rockelle Strader
Electronic Resources Management Systems: The Experience of Beta Testing and Implementation	125	(12)
Tony A. Harvell
Beginning to See the Light: Developing a Discourse for Electronic Resource Management	137	(12)
Jill Emery
Index	149