What does electronic full‐text really mean? A comparison of database vendors and what they deliver

Brennan, Patricia B.M.; Burkhardt, Joanna; McMullen, Susan; Wallace, M.

doi:10.1108/00907329910275123

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“…While vendors will generally list the titles and date spans of full-text serials in their databases, they usually do not spell out what is not included, e.g., editorials, book reviews, missing issues, graphics and sometimes tables of data (Franck and Chambers, 1998;Brennan and Brukhardt, 1999). Rarely is the electronic version a faithful reproduction of its paper counterpart.…”

Section: Is Electronic the Answer?mentioning

confidence: 98%

Providing Services and Information to the Dispersed Off-Campus Student

Cavanagh

2001

Journal of Library Administration

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Deakin University in Victoria, Australia has provided a full library service to its off-campus students since its formation in 1977. Electronic access to the catalogue has been available since 1992 and over 150 networked databases including several with full-text are currently in use. Yet despite ready availability and high use of electronic resources, our students are still heavy users of document delivery of books and journal articles, indicating that the so-called virtual library by itself is unlikely to meet the library needs of off-campus users adequately. The paper considers the difficulties facing off-campus students and concludes that access to electronic services and facilities, despite its limitations, offers the best solution to many of the needs of these students. A particular difficulty for many distance students is obtaining the necessary software and setting themselves up to use electronic services. The Deakin Learning Toolkit was developed to meet these needs. Supplied as a free CD-ROM to all students and staff of the University, it provides software, information and tutorials on an easy to install and use disk. Library-related features of the Toolkit are described in detail.

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Section: Is Electronic the Answer?mentioning

confidence: 98%

Providing Services and Information to the Dispersed Off-Campus Student

Cavanagh

2001

Journal of Library Administration

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“…Regarding decision making, they found that 38 percent of UK librarians were responsible for decision making, while the North American respondents showed that faculty made these decisions, usually with librarian assistance or the assistance of collection development professionals (Ashcroft and Langdon, 1999). Brennan et al (1999) describe the experience of a multi-sites higher education library consortium in purchasing EJs and databases. Factors such as database features, coverage, search features, and delivery options were considered important (Brennan et al, 1999).…”

Section: Review Of Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Brennan et al (1999) describe the experience of a multi-sites higher education library consortium in purchasing EJs and databases. Factors such as database features, coverage, search features, and delivery options were considered important (Brennan et al, 1999). Diedrichs (1999) states that vendors and agents have a plethora of reports, databases, and tools that can be used by libraries in support of collection assessment as well as the day-to-day process of acquiring library material.…”

Section: Review Of Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The growth of electronic journals in academic libraries in Saudi Arabia

Dulaymi¹,

Marghalani

McDonald

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Library Management

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Saudi academic libraries (SALs) have been moving towards using electronic resources since 1992. This study aims to investigate the changes in electronic journal (EJ) (bibliographic and full-text databases) and printed journal (PJ) collection and acquisition in terms of number of titles, type of provisions and acquisition budgets and costs, between the years 1995 and 2000. The survey method was used to obtain the data. The instruments used in this study were questionnaires that were distributed to six academic libraries in Saudi Arabia. The percentages were used to show the differences between the increase and the decrease of EJ and PJ collections and budgets. The most important findings show that the percentage of EJ collections sharply increased in 1996 by 98 percent, which corresponds to a high increase in their budget of 125 percent.

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“…Wilhite (1999) in a thematic issue devoted to periodicals acquisitions and the Internet, observes that growth and change are characteristics of electronic access to information. Criteria and guidelines to assist in the decision-making process for the purchase of multidisciplinary electronic products and services have been prepared by the UK HELIN Consortium (Brennan et al, 1999), and Klingler (1999) has a planning checklist for consortial database use. Hajdukiewicz (1999) describes the critical issues facing LIS journals.…”

Section: Managing Financial Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%