If you are using an agent, you might rely on that agent to issue a report
of what is available against your list in electronic format. That is
something my company does, for example, in a nice spreadsheet format.  You
may then work with your agent to gain access to the electronic versions.

I hope this helps.

Dena Scheon

Dena J. Schoen, M.L.I.S., M.A.
Director of Sales
North America

OTTO HARRASSOWITZ GmbH & Co. KG
Wissenschaftliche Buchhandlung & Zeitschriftenagentur
Booksellers & Subscription Agents
Livres & Périodiques

Silver Spring, MD

www.harrassowitz.de
Tel: 1-800-348-6886
Cell: 301-801-9864
Fax: 1-301-588-0661
dschoen@ottosvc.com

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Please excuse the cross posting

I am trying to determine the availability of electronic versions of a
number journal titles (300) as well as which databases provide access to
the full text of these journals. Any ideas on how to approach this would
be greatly appreciated. We are attempting to evaluate duplication in our
print and electronic journal collections and many of the latter we
receive through aggregators. Do we need to check each aggregator for
availability or is there a central index with information on location of
full text electronic journals in databases?

Thanks in advance. I truly appreciate your response, as I'm not quite
sure how to approach this.
Barbara Blummer
Center for Computing Sciences