-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: TOC Alerting Service -- David Goodman
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:02:46 -0600
From: "Fayad, Melissa H." <FayadM@missouri.edu>

That all sounds well and good, but our TOC involves Academic Law
Journals
published mostly by individual law schools.  Do we have any options?
Very
few of these journals are published by major publishers.
Thanks,
Melissa H. Fayad
Serials Assistant
University of Missouri-Columbia
Law Library
224 Hulston Hall
Columbia, MO  65211-4190

(573) 884-4455 (voice mail available)
fax (573) 882-9676
http://www.law.missouri.edu/library/

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: TOC Alerting Service -- 2 messages
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:00:44 -0400
From: David Goodman <dgoodman@princeton.edu>
Reply-To: dgoodman@princeton.edu
Organization: Princeton University Biology Library

My personal advice is that it is no longer necessary for a library--at
least
an academic science library-- to run such a service itself. Just show
the
researchers how to set up the automated toc services for titles of
interest
for themselves. Essentially all publishers do a very good job of
this--as
indeed they would be expected to do, since it generates requests for
articles
and subscriptions. We sent around instructions, and then taught
individually
the faculty and theit secretaries as needed.

Five years ago we had here an elaborate system based on the  Current
Contents
floppy disks that, even semi-automated, took about 1/4 staff position.
We canceled  CC, and  put the money into Web of Science.
Evertyuone is now better off.
David Goodman
Biology Librarian
and Co-chair, Electronic Journals Task force
Princeton University Library
Princeton, NJ 08544-0001
phone: 609-258-3235
fax: 609-258-2627
e-mail: dgoodman@princeton.edu