Apr
22
Transition from Journals to E-Journals
Filed Under Work
Gwen Bird, SFU
Kevin Stranack, SFU
SFU’s migration to e-journals:
- 1999, 8k print titles
- 2005, 3k print, 10k e-journals
- Drexel in the US has gone all digital.
- Big license deals via consortia has made licensing e-journals much more cost effective.
- on a journal by journal basis, they cancel print and purchase the e-journal.
- Criteria for “migration” developed
- consulted with community.
- told everyone of the cancellations and if they wanted to keep the print, they would have to make a case to keep it.
- tracked on-line and print use stats. Dept’s more willing to ditch print after seeing the stats.
- Criteria: stability, archival rights,server reliability, image quality.
- Reaction: overall it has been a success. Usage stats bear this out. Usage stats increasing at 50 percent per year.
- changed ILL usage has decreased dramatically. Came from increased on-line content.
- preservation questions and long term access to journals.
- CUFTS: Serials Management
- on-line db of full text serials resources.
- developed at SFU for better full text link resolving.
- centrally maintained db.
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