The Transition to an Electronic Journal Collection

Montgomery, Carol Hansen; Sparks, JoAnne

doi:10.1080/00987913.2000.10764596

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“…Almost no area of the library has been left untouched. 6 Significant work remains to address the profound changes in workflow dictated by the transition to electronic delivery of information. With many of the critical maintenance and cleanup projects nearing completion, Harrell HSL is embarking on an analysis and redesign of workflows throughout Collection Access & Management and Technical Services divisions.…”

Section: Resulting Impact On Staff Workflowmentioning

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Conversion of an Academic Health Sciences Library to a Near-Total Electronic Library: Part 2

Lingle

Robinson

2009

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries

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In the last ten years, many health sciences libraries have gradually converted their collections from predominantly print journal subscriptions to electronic-only subscriptions. This is being driven by budget, space issues, and user preference. The desire to retain both print and electronic versions of journal titles has proven to be unsustainable for many health sciences libraries in the face of flat or shrinking budgets and increased demand for space at the institutional level. Due to demand for space for a clinical simulation facility at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, the George T. Harrell Health Sciences Library was faced with the need to accelerate the shift to primarily an electronic collection when more than 80% of the print journals and more than 20% of the print book collection were removed from the library. Part one of this article discussed how a case had to be made to the college administration that the older literature was still utilized and had value-and that it would be worthwhile to selectively purchase the electronic ''backfiles'' or archival files to replace high-use print journals. This second part of the article provides a detailed discussion of the decisions that resulted from the data analysis, subsequent actions that were taken to remove the collection, why certain backfiles were selected for purchase, and resulting impacts on both library users and library staff workflow.

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Section: Resulting Impact On Staff Workflowmentioning

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Conversion of an Academic Health Sciences Library to a Near-Total Electronic Library: Part 2

Lingle

Robinson

2009

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries

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“…For nonelectronic resources, the latter costs were attributable strictly to cataloging; however, because electronic resources are now commonly presented through gateway lists, this category also includes the costs of adding and maintaining list entries. An analysis of Drexel University's move toward a completely electronic journal collection found that the costs of acquiring and providing intellectual access to electronic journals were actually higher than those of other formats (Montgomery and Sparks 2000). The Michigan report also found that access systems (including interface design, application development, and server capacity) and library infrastructure (workstations and connectivity) required more funding.…”

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Survey of the Providers of Electronic Publications Holding Contracts with Spanish University Libraries

Bravo¹,

Díez²

2005

D-Lib Magazine

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became head of collection management services at the University of Washington in 1998. He has been involved in the coordination of electronic resources there since 1992, when he was appointed head of the UW Libraries' Electronic Information Program. He has been active in regional consortium activities for several years and served as visiting program officer for electronic resources at the Association of Research Libraries from 1996 to 1998. He received a master's degree in library science from SUNY-Albany, and a master's degree in sociology from the Pennsylvania State University. He recently published an article on "Library Resources and Services for Sociology" in the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Sociology.iii

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“…Publishers of indexes and abstracts and some periodical vendors became "aggregators," providing various levels of full-text access to many (sometimes hundreds of) periodicals. Some librarians aggressively embraced the electronic format and cancelled equivalent print subscriptions, using the cost savings from print cancellations to access more journal titles and accommodate their users' preference for electronic information [5]. Others waited to cancel print subscriptions, concerned about aggregator database stability, long-term availability of electronic content, and publisher or vendor backlashes to massive print cancellations.…”

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Analysis of format duplication in an academic library collection

Maple

Wright

Seeds

2003

Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services

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The issue of format duplication in academic library collections is increasingly complicated and perplexing in an environment of static or dwindling resources, soaring user expectations, dynamic access models, and inconsistent and changing publisher and vendor pricing structures. The problem is further complicated for libraries serving a university with multiple campus locations. This paper surveys recent investigative projects and highlights the work of a Duplicate Formats Task Force at Pennsylvania State University charged with determining the extent and nature of format duplication at that institution.

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The Transition to an Electronic Journal Collection

Cited by 23 publications

References 7 publications

Conversion of an Academic Health Sciences Library to a Near-Total Electronic Library: Part 2

Conversion of an Academic Health Sciences Library to a Near-Total Electronic Library: Part 2

Survey of the Providers of Electronic Publications Holding Contracts with Spanish University Libraries

Analysis of format duplication in an academic library collection

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