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Subject: Survey on Presentation of E-Journals
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 09:13:43 -0500
From: Regina Reynolds <rrey@LOC.GOV>

MODERATOR'S NOTE:  Regina requested that all responses be sent to her --
please make sure to forward them on to:  rrey@LOC.GOV.
SERIALST Co-Moderator

Dear Colleagues:

As more and more libraries are cataloging e-journals, catalogers are
having to contend with a lack of standardization in the bibliographic
information presented on the journals.

In order to gather some data for my participation in a NISO workshop on
E-Jounals: Best Practices I have drafted the following survey.
Representatives from publishers will be attending the meeting and I hope
to communicate to the publishers the importance of including complete,
easy-to-locate, and unambiguous information about their journals in the
online publications themselves.

Your input will strengthen my recommendations to the publishing
community
and potentially help gain support for a NISO standard on the
presentation
of e-journals or for some kind of best practices document on this
subject.

Please return the survey to me at rrey@loc.gov by Tuesday, Feb. 15.

Thank you very much for taking the time to complete the survey.

Regina  R. Reynolds                     email: rrey@loc.gov
Head, National Serials Data Program     voice: (202) 707-6379
Library of Congress                     fax    (202) 707-6333
101 Independence Avenue, S.E.           ISSN Web page:
lcweb.loc.gov/issn/
Washington, D.C. 20540-4160

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SURVEY ON E-JOURNALS PRESENTATION

Listed below are some problems which catalogers encounter in the
presentation of e-journals.  Please indicate your opinion of the
severity
of each problem by using the following scale:

1--no problem
2--a minor problem
3--a problem
4--a significant problem
5--a most serious problem

1.  Lack of standard bibliographic information:

____ title                      _____issue designation

___  publisher                  ____ date last updated

___ place of publication        ____ names of responsible bodies

___ frequency                   ____ subscription information

___ Copyright holder            ____ title of counterpart print serial

other___________________________________________________________

2.  Title problems:

_____ title of the serial is changed and all issues now carry the new
title (i.e., old title disappears from even the back issues)

____  multiple presentations of the title, some with different wording

____  difficulty in identifying a cataloging title

____  difficulty in determining how many serials are on a given site

other_______________________________________________________________

3.  ISSN Problems

____  No ISSN

___  ISSN of print serial is used to identify online serial

___  multiple ISSN on one serial without clarification of what the ISSN
identify

___  ambiguous ISSN use (e.g., ISSN of newsletter used on organization
Web
site)

other:_____________________________________________________________

4.  Storage and retention

___ No information given about policies regarding downloading or storing
in local archives

___  No information given about whether and how long publisher will
retain
back issues on the Web site

other____________________________________________________________

5.  Other concerns:  please describe other problems that make
bibliographic control difficult which you have experienced
with the presentation of e-journals.

_____________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

6:  Your name & email address_____________________________________

    Your institution____________________________________________

    Your duties with regard to e-journals (cataloger, reference,
administrator, etc.)
                     ______________________________________________

Please return surveys by Feb. 15.
Thank you very much!