Hi Susan,

Your serials vendor should be able to provide you with the indexing information.  If you have a subscription to Ulrich's Serials Analysis System, you can run your serial lists against their database and pull indexing information.  Also, if you have students, they could search Ulrich's for the same information--it sure would be slower, though.

The information you'll gather will be very useful in determining the accessability of your journals to your users.  There may be important titles, though, that aren't found in Katz or indexed anywhere, that your faculty will need to let you know about.  We have such a title, and I wouldn't dare cancel it for the world.

Good luck with your project!

Stefanie

Stefanie DuBose
Head, Acquisitions
Academic Library Services
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27258-4353
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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU]On Behalf Of Marshall, Susan
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 3:25 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Service idea...opinions please...

HI All,

 I am the Electronic Resources Librarian here at Montana State
University.
I would like to get your opinions on an idea for a service that I have.
Maybe a vendor is already providing this service of which I am not aware
so I thought I would ask those of you in collection development of
serials:

For collection analysis, I would like to find out if all of my
subscribed journals (excluding aggregator FT titles)
are indexed in at least one of the online indexing databases to which we
subscribe.
I'd like to know where my indexing gaps are in covering my subscribed
journals.

Rationale:
With the use of my link resolver, potentially all of my journals -
both print and online are "findable" through an online index. But I want
to make
sure all of my journals are indexed within the indexing databases to
which we subscribe.

Is this a service that other libraries would be interested in?
Is this already being done by a vendor or through a local library's own
Systems Dept
efforts?
Please reply to the whole list.
Thanks in advance for your input.

Sue
 Susan P. Marshall
Electronic Resources Librarian
Assistant Professor
Renne Library
Montana State University
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT 59717-3320
smarshall@montana.edu
(406) 994-4313
Fax (406) 994-2851