Question from/for those who don’t know: what is “threshold”? is that the embargo time periods?
Cindy Harper
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We have student workers do this, as filler. We don't check every month - we just check on a rolling basis, and when we get to the end, we start over. Everything gets
checked maybe 2-3 times a year. We have about the same number of journals. We only do this on journals we directly subscribe to.
I think that many shifting thresholds seems excessive, unless they've sat unattended for a long time.
But I just had a thought - are you watching the monthly update reports? If you're not, then you're going to get that level of inaccuracy.
Melissa Platkowski
Systems Librarian
David A. Cofrin Library
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
2420 Nicolet Dr.
Green Bay, WI 54311-7001
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F: (920) 465-2136
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<SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG> on behalf of Kat Hart <khart@GSU.EDU>
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Hi Jason,
You might go through the full list a few more times to see if the 10% that are problems are the same titles consistently having issues each month. Then,
you can focus your efforts on these problem titles, which should take less of your time.
Kat
Katherine Hart, MLIS
Electronic & Continuing Resources Librarian
Georgia State University Library
100 Decatur Street, SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
404-413-2796
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On Behalf Of Jason Schafer
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 10:12 AM
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Subject: [SERIALST] SFX Threshold Management
Please excuse any cross-posting!
In January, I took on the role of Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian at an institution that manages approximately 650 electronic journal subscriptions
from a wide variety of vendors. This is a much larger collection than I am used to managing and I am new to SFX.
My questions here involve insuring that the thresholds for access to the journals displayed on our website are updated appropriately. My predecessor in
this position used to go through all 650 electronic journals once a month checking to see if any of the thresholds needed to be updated. I went through this process earlier in the year and it took me four full-time work days to check all of the journals and
to make all of the changes necessary in SFX. Adhering to my predecessor’s workflow, I began the process again yesterday. I’m about 150 journal in, and so far around 10% of the journal thresholds have needed to be updated. Some of the thresholds are locally
created and others are global SFX thresholds.
I realize that it’s possible to set moving threshold walls, but these settings aren’t capturing all of the fluctuation in so many different titles from
so many different vendors.
I’m already getting to the point where I’m about to suggest bringing in volunteers to do nothing but check thresholds since this could potentially take
up so much of my time.
So the questions are these: Is this situation normal? How do other small-to-medium-sized libraries handle threshold management?
Thanks in advance for any help!
-Jason
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