...Elizabeth A. Lightfoot Purpose Open access (OA) electronic journals have been identified as potentially at risk of loss without more coordinated preservation efforts. The purpose of this paper is to test the current availability of OA electronic journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access...

... and back issues, and access at my university is not satisfactory since many fields are not well covered (Health Sciences). Academic libraries Electronic journals Scholarly communication Information behaviour University libraries Catalonia Over the past two decades, scholarly...

... systems Electronic books Electronic journals Libraries Open access Intellectual property Digital Information: Order or Anarchy? is indeed a timely publication as it brings to the fore many of the current issues surrounding the creation and dissemination of digital information. Some...

... of the literature seems to indicate that the move to electronic journals is good for researchers. Practical implications The move to electronic resources will provide a rich base of digital literature that was not available to researchers before, and this will result in upgraded efforts at publication...

... group was set up, comprising seven members of the staff of five Catalan academic libraries. Findings Participants confirmed the increase in the amount of journal reading among academics, due to the increase in the number of electronic journals available and the improvement in the tools for locating...

... have encouraged involvement and participation in consortia, selection and deselection on the basis of the quality of journals, and movement to electronic journal collections. Practical implications The new research library environment that has evolved as technology has developed not only requires...

... to improve online access. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Digital libraries Electronic journals Purchasing groups Customer satisfaction University libraries Italy Do users know the Library System web site? Are users aware of EV and with what frequency do they use...

... --> Cataloguing Online catalogues Electronic journals The introduction to this volume does not state the intended audience for the work, it does let you know about the content. This is a wise move. You can tell from the title (spelling of cataloguing) that this is an American work, published simultaneously...

... promotion and user‐centred design. Originality/value This paper may prove useful to humanities librarians engaged in providing user effective organisation of e‐journals and in encouraging researchers and students to use electronic journals. The methodological approach of the research was mainly...

...Linden Sweeney © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Serials Serials management Librarians Cataloguing Electronic journals This book claims to be an “introduction to serials work”. It is aimed at “library and information technician” (p. 1) students. The term...

... Electronic journals Publishers An example of this highly uneven output is that only 10 per cent of the global health research is undertaken in the developing world (Global Forum for Health Research, 2003) and only 2 per cent of the 3,000 journals indexed on Medline are from developing countries (Smith...

... in East Asian academic libraries in North America, with the aim to present observations through a set of survey questions touching on both librarian and user perspectives on collection and access. The survey included the following questions: © MCB UP Limited 2003 Electronic journals China...

.... This chapter is written both from the point of view of the agent and of the librarian. Once again the growth of electronic journals is examined in light of how the new models affect both the agent and the librarian. Matthew Searle’s chapter on processing “… is concerned with the nuts and bolts of serials...

...Carol Hansen Montgomery Describes the background and development of the migration to an electronic journal collection by the W.W. Hagerty Library of Drexel University, Philadelphia. Starting in 1998, this transition was a key component of the library’s strategic plan, and with a few exceptions...