This is my experience with it from several years ago. The EJS Enhanced may be a viable product now.

EJS was an old Holdings management system whereby EBSCO tracked pricing, access, licenses, and went so far as to authenticate access to some publications - as Admin, we wouldn’t need to connect directly with the journal vendor if you had a subscription to EJS. I say ‘was’ because we cancelled it when EBSCO merged the Holdings Management functionality into EBSCOAdmin. EJS worked pretty well in the past, but over time, more and more of the journal titles required direct contact with the vendor for license agreements and for access set-up. It was meant to be a time saver in e-journals admin – eventually I was I was spending more time contacting vendors directly than the cost of the service warranted. And, if I remember correctly, the price went up quite a bit when the ‘Enhanced’ was added to the original EJS product. As far as I know, EJS is not connected to EDS, Publication Finder or any link resolver except that it is a Target for your link resolver. You can enable it or disable it just as you would any other e-resource in your EBSCOadmin.

Thank you,

Maria Haubrich, BA

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OK – I’ll show my ignorance here.

I’ve seen the term “EBSCO EJS” around for years, but never really knew what it comprised. I may well be using it now that we use EDS, but how would I know? We have not until recently done ejournals beyond aggregator databases in any large way. I’ve done the best to search connect.ebsco.com and ebsconet.com help (that’s very limited) to find basic information on EJS. Oh, I guess there is ebsco.com too. I can’t find a product named Electronic Journal Service EJS listed, although it’s referred to in various hel documents.

So what is EJS Enhanced? Is it the combination of Publication Finder and the link resolver and Holdings Management? What’s Enhanced about it?

Cindy

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When we subscribe to individual subscriptions from EBSCO, we make them discoverable in our library catalog (OCLC Worldcat Discovery) using EBSCOhost EJS Enhanced. We just track the individual titles in the EBSCOhost EJS Enhanced database. Are there any alternatives out there?

Jason Skoog

Archivist and Systems Librarian
Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI
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