I have some experience with GOBI through my position as a graduate
assistant at the Business and Economics Library at the University of
Illinois.
For our purposes, its a rather straight-forward and easy-to-use
purchasing system. Based on the profile we have with GOBI, we receive
book slips each week for books that we can purchase through our fund.
As a GA, one of my tasks is to find books that should be in that list
of slips that aren't - and the ratio is usually 3 : 1, which is not
good since at Illinois we can only (easily) purchase from the list we
receive.
Some other pros to GOBI: you can set a list of peers and see in the
slip if they have purchased the title, the slip also tells you how
many copies have been sold through GOBI, the table of contents is
usually included through the slip (as a link) as well.
I haven't seen OASIS, so I cannot offer any comparisons - though I do
know that GOBI is the primary site in use at Illinois.
Brock Peoples
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
On Jan 26, 2010, at 12:59 PM, acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As a result of Baker & Taylor acquiring Blackwell, we have to decide
> on another online ordering interface. I would be interested in
> knowing the pros and cons of GOBI & OASIS. Looking forward to your
> response.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Dolores
>
> ~~~~~~
> Dolores Yilibuw
> Acquisitions Team Leader & Economics Liaison
> Eastern Kentucky University Libraries
> 521 Lancaster Ave.
> Richmond, KY 40475
> Phone: 859-622-3068
> Fax: 859-622-1174
> Dolores.yilibuw_at_eku.edu
>
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