Hello,

We're a small college that subscribes to JSTOR's Arts & Science I
collection, but we don't subscribe to Project Muse.

I'm wondering if there are others in my situation. Since they have merged,
*most* of our search results are for a Project Muse title or issue for
which we have no subscription. We know that if our undergraduates hit a
brick wall every time they search in a database, they'll stop using it.
This would be a shame, since JSTOR has some very valuable backfiles.

We do have linking software that provides access to our JSTOR titles from
our other indexes. I am tempted to remove the JSTOR link altogether from
our web page and just let them access JSTOR from the citations in indexes
like MLA and SocIndex. The problem, of course, is making sure they are
searching the correct index to get the greatest number of records.

We are loathe to be bullied into subscribing to a new database in order to
keep an existing database useful. We have looked into Project Muse
recently and like it, but the price has made us hold off.

Any ideas on this?
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Diane Arnold
Serials Librarian
Logue Library at Chestnut Hill College
9601 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19118