ACQNET: Indexing service idea - opinions please

From: Eleanor Cook <cookei_at_appstate.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 15:01:52 -0500 To: acqnet-l_at_listproc.appstate.edu

Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:00:12 -0500
From: Susan Marshall (Montana State U) <smarshall_at_montana.edu>
Subject:  Service Idea...opinions please....

<>HI All,

I am the Electronic Resources Librarian here at Montana State University.
I would like to get your opinions on an idea for a service that I have.
Maybe a vendor is already providing this service of which I am not aware
so I thought I would ask those of you in collection development of serials:

<>For collection analysis, I would like to find out if all of my 
subscribed journals
(excluding aggregator FT titles) are indexed in at least one of the 
online indexing
databases to which we subscribe.

I'd like to know where my indexing gaps are in covering my subscribed 
journals.

Rationale:

<>With the use of my link resolver, potentially all of my journals -
both print and online are "findable" through an online index. But I want 
to make
sure all of my journals are indexed within my indexing databases to 
which we subscribe.

Is this a service that other libraries would be interested in?

<>Is this already being done by a vendor or through a local library's 
own Systems Dept efforts?

Please reply to the whole list.

Thanks in advance for your input.

Sue

 Susan P. Marshall

Electronic Resources Librarian
Assistant Professor
Renne Library
Montana State University
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT 59717-3320
smarshall_at_montana.edu
(406) 994-4313
Fax (406) 994-2851

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