Speaking of overlap, I am also looking at the Project Muse products and
have yet to find any
information that indicates what years are covered for each journal
title.  Has anyone else
found this information on the website or somewhere else easily accessible?

Barbara Pope

Hutchens, Chad wrote:

>"more than 80% of Muse titles are redundant with the other databases we
>have"
>
>Are you speaking of just title overlap?  Or are you counting in coverage
>overlap as well?  That is, the titles might occur in other databases,
>but is the coverage equal for the same title in another database?
>
>My other question would be which PM packages do you currently have...or,
>which package(s) did you cancel rather?
>
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>Chad E. Hutchens
>Electronic Resources Librarian
>Montana State University Libraries
>P.O. Box 173320
>Bozeman, MT  59717-3320
>(406) 994-4313 phone
>(406) 994-2851 fax
>chutchens@montana.edu
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
>[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Tian Zhang
>Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:35 PM
>To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
>Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Something about Project Muse
>
>Until 2005, our university library subscribed Project Muse. This year,
>as the subscription fee goes up, I was asked to have the overlap
>analyses with all our other databases about the Muse titles. The result
>is: more than 80% of Muse titles are redundant with the other databases
>we have. Only about less than 40 titles in Muse are unique. (18 Duke
>titles which are also unique have been already withdrawn from Muse). At
>last, our library decided not to subscribe Project Muse starting 2006.
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>But after we stop the subscription, we got phone calls from professors
>who are used to Muse for retrieve some articles. Even though I some
>times can find the articles for them by using ProQuest, or Ebsco, or
>some other databases, this makes me rethink whether it is a correct
>decision to quit Project Muse. And another problem is that when users
>tried to get articles from a title in Jstor, they were referred to Muse.
>So, I have to raise the question for our library whether we should pick
>it up again or not.
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>I just want to hear from the other Serials Librarians: what do you think
>about Project Muse? And what is your library's policy for deselect
>databases with the impact of budget?
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>
>Thank you in advice for sharing the information with me.
>
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>Tian X. Zhang
>
>Serials Librarian
>St. John's University Library
>8000 Utopia Parkway
>Queens, NY 11439
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