Because we had not heard about the merger, we went into Project Muse
web site and it looks to me like linking the two is optional.

On Thu,
26 May 2005 15:06:36 -0400 "Arnold, Diane" <arnoldd@CHC.EDU> wrote:

> 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?
> ___________________
> Diane Arnold
> Serials Librarian
> Logue Library at Chestnut Hill College
> 9601 Germantown Avenue
> Philadelphia, PA 19118

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