Electronic Journals in the Online Catalog: Selection and Bibliographic Control

Simpson, Pamela; Seeds, Robert

doi:10.5860/lrts.42n2.126

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“…Academic and research libraries, on the other hand, subscribe to scholarly journals, which, largely for economic reasons and for speed of publication, have had strong incentives to shift to electronic formats. Simpson and Seeds [13] demonstrated that, in the 1990s, academic libraries have started to shift from owning printed scholarly journals to providing access to their electronic counterparts. They pointed out that the number of entries for electronic journals in the 1996 Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Discussion Lists increased by 256% over the previous year, and in the 1997 Directory the number of electronic journals doubled again.…”

Section: The Arrival Of New Types Of Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Cataloging in the 21st century—part 2

Dorner

2000

Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services

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This paper, the second of a pair examining the library and information science literature of the 1990s to identify the role of catalogers in the 21st century, discusses two major themes that are likely to affect the cataloging enterprise: the digitization of information and changes to information standards. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of these themes and the contextual issues in the previous paper for the future of catalogers and their work.

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Section: The Arrival Of New Types Of Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Cataloging in the 21st century—part 2

Dorner

2000

Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services

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“…Catalog records for web-based resources provide ease of access from within an existing database that uses a controlled vocabulary (Porter and Bayard, 1999). The inclusion of catalog records for resources also is a means of promoting use of resources (Simpson and Seeds, 1998).…”

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The electronic library: responses from the State University of New York (SUNY)

Petrick

2004

OCLC Systems &Amp; Services: International Digital Library Perspectives

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Illustrates the methods of pointing to remotely‐accessible electronic resources in libraries in a university system ranging from research centers to community colleges. The online catalogs of libraries in the State University of New York (SUNY) system were tested for remotely‐accessible electronic resources. Each library's internet home page was also searched for means of linking to journal titles. The libraries at SUNY campuses have shown different responses to the issues of making available aggregator databases, web sites, and e‐books. A marked decrease in the use of the online catalog to make available remotely‐accessible electronic resources at academic libraries other than those at the research level was noted. The findings are limited insofar that no effort was made to determine the reasons why each library did or not include records for remotely‐accessible electronic resources in their online catalogs. Academic libraries find desirable a single search interface for remotely‐accessible electronic resources, and this may include the library's online catalog. This study will be of value to those who are concerned with the ways in which remotely‐accessible electronic resources are made available in various sizes of academic libraries, particularly those engaged in decision making about online resources.

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“…By changing the way in which these traditional functions are carried out, electronic journals invoke not replacement of the librarians' traditional roles, but enhancement and amendment. Dworaczek and Wiebe (1994), Von Ungern-Sternberg and Lindquist (1995), Atkinson (1997), Davis (1997), Diedrichs (1997), Etschmaier and Bustion (1997), Diedrichs and Ogburn (1998), Simpson and Seeds (1998), and Woodward (1998), for example, have all contended that, as electronic journals raise new technical and legal issues, acquisition librarians will have to play an increasingly important role, taking up such remits as negotiating with publishers, advising on technical infrastructures, securing access to back issues, etc. Many commentators (e.g., Meadows, 1996;Woodward, 1998) also agree that as various professional organizations and individuals start publishing scholarly journals, with or without formal quality control, librarians are expected to play a more proactive role in tracking down relevant, quality journals for their users.…”

Section: Normative Views In the Professional Discourse: -A Review Of Literature On Implications Of Electronic Journals For Librarians' Romentioning

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“…In keeping with the changing mode of acquisition, librarians are also called upon to enhance their customizing and filtering roles during information processing, while continuing their roles of 'cataloguing' journals, so as to improve intellectual access to sources of knowledge (Ingwersen, 1999;McMillan, 1994;Simpson and Seeds, 1998;Von Ungern-Sternberg and Lindquist, 1995;Woodward, 1997Woodward, , 1998 . Simpson and Seeds (1998), for example, note that in organizing bibliographic control for electronic journals, dual processing is often needed -one for the subject-based Web page inventory and another for the traditional catalogue. Moreover, as the unit (e.g., a journal issue) to be processed no longer has a tangible physical format, it is vital to establish a closer co-operation than hitherto needed between the selection and processing process (Kaag, 1998;Simpson and Seeds, 1998).…”

Section: Normative Views In the Professional Discourse: -A Review Of Literature On Implications Of Electronic Journals For Librarians' Romentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Simpson and Seeds (1998), for example, note that in organizing bibliographic control for electronic journals, dual processing is often needed -one for the subject-based Web page inventory and another for the traditional catalogue. Moreover, as the unit (e.g., a journal issue) to be processed no longer has a tangible physical format, it is vital to establish a closer co-operation than hitherto needed between the selection and processing process (Kaag, 1998;Simpson and Seeds, 1998).…”

Section: Normative Views In the Professional Discourse: -A Review Of Literature On Implications Of Electronic Journals For Librarians' Romentioning

confidence: 99%

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Librarians in the delivery of electronic journals

McKnight

Harker³

et al. 2000

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Reports results of a study to reappraise the role of librarians in the delivery to users of electronic periodicals, by examination of a specific electronic periodical service, SuperJournal, drawing on three different sources of evidence regarding librarians’ roles: their perceived roles in the delivery of electronic periodicals, their actions in delivering SuperJournal and their behavioural characteristics when using SuperJournal. Focuses on four issues: the librarians’ perception of their roles as deliverers of electronic periodicals; consideration of whether their actions match their espoused roles when faced with a specific electronic periodical; the rating of their use of SuperJournal in relation to their role as information deliverers; and whether their practised roles had any effect on end users. The empirical evidence was collected during the course of the SuperJournal electronic periodical project and included: a log of site librarian activities related to SuperJournal; a transcription of librarian discussions during three workshops; an interview survey which was conducted with one librarian at each site; a 22-month SuperJournal usage log file; and a postal questionnaire survey conducted with all SuperJournal librarian users, to investigate their views about SuperJournal and their perceived roles in delivering electronic periodicals; 68 librarians’ usable responses to the survey were obtained (28% response rate). The librarians see the electronic periodical as a challenge to the library profession in a number of specified ways and, accordingly, they espoused a set of roles which they thought would better define their position in the changing scholarly communication system.

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Electronic Journals in the Online Catalog: Selection and Bibliographic Control

Cited by 11 publications

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Cataloging in the 21st century—part 2

Cataloging in the 21st century—part 2

The electronic library: responses from the State University of New York (SUNY)

Librarians in the delivery of electronic journals

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