From: Mary Anne Trainor <trainor_at_fhs.csu.McMaster.CA>
I was interested to read about the efforts at the University of Kansas
Libraries to provide access to journals cancelled or not held by the
Library through a customized UnCover gateway at no cost to the user. Over
the last 5 years, the McMaster Health Sciences Library has lost over 27%
of its journal collection to cancellations. Needless to say, we are
looking for less expensive ways of providing access to journals.
Has anyone else adopted a model where the library has cancelled very high
cost core research journals such as BBA, Brain Research, Journal of
Comparative Neurology or Gene, and set aside a finite sum to subsidize or
pay for document delivery through a commercial service like UnCover or
Swetscan? If you have done this, even as a pilot project, I would be
interested in any information you could share with me.
Mary Anne Trainor Tel: 905-525-9140 x24169
Head of Acquisitions & Serials FAX: 905-528-3733
Health Sciences Library Internet:
McMaster University trainor_at_fhs.mcmaster.ca
1200 Main St. W.
Hamilton ON CANADA L8N 3Z5
Received on Thu Dec 19 1996 - 16:37:52 EST