We have the CCC Get-It-Now(GIN) service set up through our SerialsSolutions 360 Link resolver, and it works pretty slick. The titles in our GIN collection ONLY
show up when no other holdings are present. And you can’t look the titles up in our journalfinder, they don’t show up as actual “subscriptions”. We’re in the process of getting our print holdings into the 360kb now so we’ll eliminate any purchases that duplicate
our physical holdings.
We get about 300+ requests a month, so our program is a bit more robust than most other libraries would be comfortable with. We’re not sure we can sustain it
at that level long-term, but the patrons love how it always seems like we can get what they need.
We pull our monthly dashboard report/request list(which shows the citation for the articles requests) every month and update both our ILL request stats and our
GIN requests and look for journals that we would be better off having a subscription to instead of buying individual articles. We’ve added about 15 journal subs based on these reports.
From the analysis of what is being requested we are able to do a number of different subject and user analyses, and are able to see trends in changing areas of
research here on our campus we might not have known about otherwise.
Now that we know the service works reasonably well, our next step is to look at our regular journal subscription usage stats and see if there are any candidates
(low use/high cost/available in GIN) for de-selection and addition to the program.
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Electronic Resources Coordinator |
The University of Texas at San Antonio |
One UTSA Circle |
San Antonio, TX. 78249-0671 |
(O)210-458-4916/(F)210-458-4577 |
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From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG]
On Behalf Of Susan Wiegand
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 8:53 AM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] pay per view for articles?
Hi, Barbara,
Yes, I set up unmediated access with SFX, our Open URL resolver, and the Get It Now (GIN) service from the Copyright Clearance Center a couple of years back, with a deposit account, with the Nature Publishing Group as the only publisher
we chose (we cancelled Nature for funding). I also set up FIZ Autodoc in Germany for the American Chemical Society journals--that's their doc delivery provider. That one is mediated and paid through ILL funds, and I wrote a little about it in an ACRLog post
when we cancelled current ACS journals. (If you want to read it, it is tagged ACS--it was around the time Jenica Rogers took her stand on ACS.)
While I also don't want vendor/publisher contacts, I have thought about expanding the service to more publishers, and am working with our ILL person for stats on what's requested, to try to discern patterns. One disadvantage is that the access is not immediate
as with a subscription, so some patrons won't use it, even though articles are usually delivered via email within minutes or hours. I've heard that using tokens sometimes avoids that, but then there are other logistical issues with that.
There does seem to be a lot of interest in this as a lower cost way to provide access to expensive journals, especially at smaller libraries, though I've heard some opinions that libraries shouldn't purchase articles for individual users, since we are all about
sharing. It is not a copyright issue or Fair Use at all, since it is a purchase. Authentication goes through the database for proxying IP off-campus; users have to use their College domain email, and I set up restrictions to limit the number of articles per
day (5) and to avoid accidental duplication if the patron requests more than once. I get a report of what's requested and the state of the deposit account (so I can ask our SFX person to turn off the SFX link if the deposit account runs low, until we replenish--then
it would automatically go to ILL because that's how we set up our SFX menu--but that hasn't happened yet). (Trying to remember all the issues involved--probably should put this all in a blog post.)
When I set these up and discussed within our library, I referred to it as the GIN and FIZ Project. ;)
Sue
Sue Wiegand
Periodicals Librarian
123 Cushwa-Leighton Library
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574.284.4789
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Barbara Pope <bpope@pittstate.edu> wrote: