Hi all,

I wanted to chime in with another thought about the T&F moving wall. NC State subscribes to only individual titles, and we've been switched over to the new 1998 start dates for this year. Our current problem is that T&F is not providing packages in the Serials Solutions knowledge base that reflect the rolling wall start dates for individual subscription customers. This has forced us to manually enter 1998 start dates for all of our titles. 

If T&F is going to sell content using this model, they need to create appropriate KBART files that represent the product they are selling and provide these to all the major knowledge bases. This helps their customers manage discovery services for their content seamlessly, without cumbersome manual work to roll the coverage dates forward each year.

I've been in touch with our T&F rep about this issue, but it seems that there needs to be more commitment to knowledge base support at higher levels of the company. It would be great if other customers could also reach out and let T&F know that we value this metadata.

Kristen

--

Kristen Wilson
Associate Head, Acquisitions and Discovery
North Carolina State University Libraries
919-513-3354
kristen_wilson@ncsu.edu
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3509-3417

---

To unsubscribe from the SERIALST list, click the following link:
http://listserv.nasig.org/scripts/wa-NASIG.exe?SUBED1=SERIALST&A=1