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Re: When is a Journal a Journal (Was Biomed Aggregators)
Ann Okerson asks: > 1. Are the ejournals included in aggregators' databases *real?* > 2. How and how not? For whom? I believe they are real in as far as the scope and content is clearly understood by the user. We subscribe to ADONIS, a CD-ROM based full-text document delivery system. ADONIS is offered on an annual subscription basis for the data. It can be viewed on a single workstation at no additional cost. If a print copy of an article is requested there is a publisher's charge which varies depending on the publisher! Most of the content of the 800+ journals covered in ADONIS are replicated in full. Advertisements, covers, and certain letters to the editor may not be. Images, photos, charts, etc. are all included. Indeed, the full text included in ADONIS is scanned, bit-mapped images of the print journal. > 3. Therefore, do they or do they not deserve to be enumerated in > in an ejournal list on our web sites? We do not list them on our web site since they are not specifially web based journals. In other words, clients cannot access ADONIS from our web page. This is technologically possible, it is just not very easy to do in its present form. However, we would link them from our home page immediately if the technical details were resolved. Part of those "details" include the charges levied by publishers for printing journals and how we would collect from the user. > 4. Should they be catalogued as an ejournal in our online catalog? We > do catalog individual titles that we license or can access as > *individual* titles. While, in general, we do not catalog journals, the ADONIS titles are listed as item records in our online catalog and also listed in our suite of databases, in our case, SilverPlatter's ERL system databases (e.g. WinSpirs, WebSpirs, etc.). When someone does a search on MEDLINE, for example, the results of the search show whether the title is located in the library and/or is an ADONIS title. > 5. Do the aggregators supply bib records for these ejournals? If not, > how did you get them into your lists or catalogs? ADONIS does not supply bib records for the journals. We've entered them manually into our system, a very labor intensive effort, but one that has paid off in many ways, not least of all as a tremendous service to our faculty, staff, and students. True, there is a cost to printing journals, but in a research and patient care environment, that cost is often not a major consideration for the member of the health care team who needs the article immediately. At this writing, we pass the full cost of an ADONIS article on to the requestor. Also, at this writing, the annual cost of ADONIS has been supported by funds outside of the library's budget for the past four years. Best, ********** Jim Bothmer, Director Health Sciences Library/ Learning Resources Center Creighton University 2500 California Plaza Omaha, NE 68178 FAX 402/280-5134 Voice 402/280-5120
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