We
at the Alaska State Library do receive issues of a few periodicals by
email,
but we limit these to ones that are critical to our collection and
mission,
such as some important Alaska-related periodicals. Except for those
few,
we generally cancel subscriptions when publishers decide to make only
pdf’s available to subscribers – we can almost always find a good
replacement. In the case of those few delivered as pdf’s, we
print and shelve them, but we don’t have any that would be as lengthy
as
the Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research. We receive periodicals
delivered as pdf’s in a separate email account that we established, in
part, for this purpose.
From:
SERIALST: Serials
in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On
Behalf Of Victoria
C. Vega
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:55 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Is anyone receiving e-mail
subscriptions?
We do not
have a subscription to
this title. We cannot accommodate PDF files at our Library because we
don’t print PDF copies due to budgetary constraints. I didn’t
think about copying it to a CD-ROM. Again if we copy to CD-ROM that is
an
extra charge for the CD’s.
Thanks,
Vicky
Victoria
Vega
Victoria
Vega
Serials
Unit Coordinator
Calif.
State Polytechnic Univ.
Library
3801 W
Temple Ave.
Pomona
Ca. 91768
vcvega@csupomona.edu
909-869-3105
From:
SERIALST: Serials
in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On
Behalf Of Arcand,
Janet L [LIB]
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:26 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Is anyone receiving e-mail subscriptions?
My
library has recently discovered our longstanding subscription to the
Canadian
Journal of Veterinary Research has changed from print to online, but
the online
delivery methods are problematic for us.
The
current issue can be found on the publisher’s website but it requires a
password
to access it, and this is not feasible for an institution with our
enrollment.
The
publisher also sent us a copy of the issue as an email attachment to
us, with
these instructions:
Our
method of sending this journal to you each quarter will
be in PDF-format.
Please note that it is permitted for you to put it onto your
intranet or Web site with password protection, and/or print a copy
and bind it, or alternatively, you can copy the PDF to a CDROM for
circulation
among library patrons.
This
title is also being made available on PubMed Central but the most
recent issue
of this quarterly will not be available there, so if we want our
patrons to
have access to it, we need to make the email version available in some
way.
We
were interested in finding out if other libraries have dealt with the
issue of
e-mail serial subscriptions, and how they decided to make it available
to their
public.
Thank
you,
Janet Arcand
ER Coordinator, Acquisitions Dept
204 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140
USA
jarcand@iastate.edu
515-294-6650 phone
515-294-1885 fax