We also check quarterly for online access to our individual subscriptions.  I have a student assistant type in the journal name into our journal finder, and check to see if the online content that is supposed to be available to us through the current issue(therefore, our individual subscription) is available as a .pdf document.  We check .pdf availability because in many cases the reason we are subscribed to a particular journal is so that our students have access to .pdf and not just .html, so they can have charts and illustrations available. Like Sue says, it has been beneficial many times, as we catch the problem before there is a need for an article.

 

 

 

Patricia McGarry

Acquisitions/Periodicals Associate

Knight-Capron Library

Lynchburg College

Phone: (434)544-8398

E-mail: mcgarry.p@lynchburg.edu

 

 

I can’t say that we monitor whether or not content is missing from individual subscriptions, but each quarter we do have a student worker check the online individual titles for access.  That’s in lieu of check-in.  It doesn’t take all that long to run through the list of online titles.  We don’t do it for titles included in packages, just single-title online subscriptions.  It has proven to be beneficial on more than one occasion.  Better to catch the problem when you don’t have a student or professor saying I need it now!

 

Sue Beidler

Head of Collection Management

Snowden Library

Lycoming College

beidler@lycoming.edu

ph: 570-321-4084

fax: 570-321-4090

 

 

 

I have a somewhat related question. Does anyone actively monitor whether or not content is missing from individual online subscriptions and, if so, how do you go about doing this? We are a relatively small school with a growing number of online journal subscriptions, purchased individually through EBSCO, Science Direct and OVID. As more of our content is available online only, we’ve become concerned about both the continuation of content and about the coverage to past issues being dropped. We have always monitored receipt of print issues, do we in any way need to be concerned about the same for online journals?

 

 

 

 

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