1. Electronic Serials Management VIVA Content Linking Workshop May 22, 2003 Jamie Redwine, Hollins Univ Leslie O’Brien, VA Tech

2. Overview  E-Serials Management Issues  The products  Discussion: Current Issues How can VIVA help?

3. E-serials Management  an A-Z list of library’s FT electronic access journals and print holdings (optional)  tool to organize holdings, subscriptions, presentation, etc.  the first step towards the D2D vision

4. D2D Scale  Stage I: OPAC access to print holdings and some online journals  Stage II: OPAC access to print and separate online lists of journals available electronically  Stage III: Journal title level access to online journals from OPAC, online lists & aggregator databases  Stage IV: Article level access between aggregator databases

5. What do patrons want?  To know which journals the library has access to  To determine if full text is available  To easily get to the full-text

8. Issues for libraries  Managing serial titles Changes, adds, drops, overlap  How to represent titles to the user Cohesive, comprehensive, integrated list  How to judge effectiveness of our online collections Usage, avoid duplication, accuracy of links & info  How to maximize full-text availability to the end user

9. Serials Management Services  Jake (Yale University)  SerialsSolutions  TDNet  Gold Rush (CARL)  EBSCO A-Z  Journal Finder (UNC-Greensboro)

11. SerialsSolutions - Products A-Z title lists MARC records Article Linker Journal Linker Data Management Service

12. TDNet Products  Electronic and print journals  Catalog Maintenance Service  Statistics Reports Generator  Passwords and access codes for libraries & consortia  Customized SDI current awareness profiles  Local searching of current TOCs

13. EBSCO A-Z  EBSCO A-Z  Electronic Journal Service  LinkSource link resolver

14. Survey Results – Fall 2002  33 respondents  29 libraries offering web-based list of electronic journal titles  48% already using an e-serials mgt service 87% using Serials Solutions  88% using or considering

15. Where are we now?  What’s the most difficult part of e- serials management?  What needs are being met by e- serials management products?  What products are we interested in? Using?  What’s working, what’s not?

16. How can VIVA help?  Current awareness and information sharing  Training and workshops  Vendor partnerships  Negotiate deals with specific vendors  Create a union list  Explore open source options