Thank you, I will ask. I was checking the titles in common at the PM
website and see that they are scattered throughout their various packages.

Someone else responded that linking the two may be optional. I will call
JSTOR and see if this is truly the case. If so, we can turn PM off until
we are able to subscribe.

Thanks again,
Diane

-----Original Message-----
From: van Sickle, Jennifer [mailto:Jennifer.Vansickle@trincoll.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:49 PM
To: Arnold, Diane
Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Project Muse & JSTOR[Scanned]

Yes, we were charter subscribers to JSTOR, so we get a break on the
price.  We don't have the Business collection.

PM is absolutely essential for us; we are heavy users for a campus of
this size.  We signed up for this at the beginning as well.  We now
subscribe via the Amigos library group.  You can do some picking and
choosing with PM, but we added the entire collection a few years ago and
have not regretted it.  It's worth asking!

Any questions, please let me know.

-Jennifer

Jennifer van Sickle
Serials Librarian/Sciences Coordinator
Trinity College Library
300 Summit St.
Hartford, CT USA 06106

phone: 860-297-2250
fax: 860-297-2251
jennifer.vansickle@trincoll.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Arnold, Diane [mailto:arnoldd@chc.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:37 PM
To: van Sickle, Jennifer
Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Project Muse & JSTOR[Scanned]

Hi Jennifer,
We also checked into consortium pricing but it was still very high. Do
you also subscribe to JSTOR?

This link http://www.jstor.org/about/recent-issues.html lists the titles
that JSTOR has in common with PM. I'll have to check to see if PM has a
"package" of just these titles and what that would cost.

My guess is they would want a larger subscription. Do you know?

Thanks for your email.
Diane

-----Original Message-----
From: van Sickle, Jennifer [mailto:Jennifer.Vansickle@trincoll.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:10 PM
To: Arnold, Diane
Subject: FW: [SERIALST] Project Muse & JSTOR[Scanned]

Hi Diane,

Our subscription to PM is via a consortium.  I'll be happy to answer
questions about this.

-Jennifer

Jennifer van Sickle
Serials Librarian/Sciences Coordinator
Trinity College Library
300 Summit St.
Hartford, CT USA 06106

phone: 860-297-2250
fax: 860-297-2251
jennifer.vansickle@trincoll.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Arnold, Diane
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:07 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Project Muse & JSTOR

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