Users:
- Librarians
- Faculty
- Grad Students
- Undergrad Students
Service:
At the current time the service we are talking about is a "Journal Locator" Service. As I'm thinking about this currently there are there are two ways I'm going to want to use this service:
- I have a known title and I want to see what kind of access, if any, that I have to this title;
- I want to locate (identify) a list of journals that are relevant to my subject.
Types of Journal Access:
We have access to journals in roughly the following formats:
- Print;
- Electronic Full Text;
- Indexing with possible abstracts;
- Inter-library loan.
Questions:
Here are just a few questions that we might ask about what we want from this kind of service:
- Do you want "one stop shopping"?
When you search a title in the service you want it to tell you any or all of the places where you might have access; - Should the list only contain "E-Journal" full-text titles?
Access to the other formats will be provided by seperate tools, the right tool for the right job. - If my desired journal is not avaialbe in full text do you want the service to tell you where it is indexed?
For librarians this might be usefull but my opinion is that if you're looking to see where a title is index than use another tool like Jake; - Should titles only avaiable in print and E-jounals be mixed together?
- I want to know if anyone else in CSU has this title. Should thesee titles be included in this service?
Thoughts / Comments about these questions
If you want "one-stop-shopping" then the OPAC is the most complete solution. All the vendors provide title list (MARC records) that can be uploaded to the catalog. This solution provides print titles, ejournal titles, index and abstracted titles, and shows what the other CSUs? have.
Interlibrary loan for journals is the same for CSU libraries as it is for any other library in the country.