[Response 2-3. Original posting follows.]
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The Mississippi State University Libraries conducted a journal
evaluation project with our faculty in March of this year. Faculty
members were asked to rate journals in their discipline as a, b, c, or
d in terms of usefulness and to state a preference for print or
electronic format. Our Serials Department investigated the journals
for which a majority of faculty completing the survey preferred
electronic format. They compared cost differences of print versus
online and also considered issues of perpetual access. We plan to
convert from print to electronic when both those factors are
favorable. This is a very brief summary. Let me know if you would
like additional information.
June Schmidt
Associate Dean for Technical Services
Mitchell Memorial Library
P.O. Box 5408
Mississippi State, MS 39762
662-325-7672
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Subject:
Re: Involving faculty in moving to ejournals
From:
Martha Tucker <mtucker_at_u.washington.edu>
This year I worked up a list and then consulted with my library
committee to identify likely titles to go online only easily and those
for which paper plus electronic are still deemed desirable (and are
still affordable...).
I presented a list for online only to all faculty by email and a few
days later attended a faculty meeting. By now, they had had enough
experience with online and the majority consensus was pretty easy to find.
Martha Tucker, Librarian
Mathematics Research Library
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-4350
206 543-7296
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>>> "John P. Abbott" <AbbottJP_at_appstate.edu> 12/05/07 9:07 AM >>>
Subject: Advice for involving faculty
From: "Patricia A. Kreitz" <pkreitz_at_slac.stanford.edu>
Dear List serv members,
We are thinking of moving to fully electronic journals--eliminating
even current issues. I would like any advice about how to involve
faculty in this decision-making. Have other libraries which have done
this used surveys, relied just on the Library Committee's input, or
used some other mechanism to identify which journals can be e-only and
which titles faculty still need to see the current issues of in a
physical form?
Thanks,
Received on Sat Dec 08 2007 - 03:01:05 EST