We spot check online subscriptions periodically and it is not at all unusual to find several that are not working for one reason or another.

Am Very Interested in responses to your second question, because it seems to me that we are just out of luck on any missing electronic access.

Thanks,

Jeanette L. Skwor
Cofrin Library, Serials Dept.
UW-Green Bay
2420 Nicolet Drive
Green Bay, WI 54311

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Holman Jenifer S
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:35 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Serials check in?

We still check-in our paper journals, but it takes considerably less time as we get so few paper journals these days.  I am curious, however, as to how librarians are accounting for their electronic subscriptions?

Do you send in a check and assume they are working unless users complain?  We've started using our Voyager check-in module to set-up a "tickler" of sorts so that twice a year we can have a student check the
electronic subscription and make sure that all is well.   It's
interesting that with a paper subscription, if we didn't get an issue (or a whole volume), we'd get a credit.  What happens if a publisher gets behind on an electronic journal?

Jen Holman

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Jenifer Holman
Acquisitions Librarian
Murphy Library
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
1631 Pine St.
La Crosse, WI 54601

phone: 608-785-8395
fax: 608-785-8639
email: holman.jeni@uwlax.edu
http://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Cynthia Hsieh
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:59 AM
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 Examples of lots talk, but not true include the Millennium Bug and the paperless society.

Cynthia Hsieh
Head of Technical Services/Assistant Professor University Library University of the Pacific
3601 Pacific Ave.
Stockton, CA 95211
Tel: (209)946-2571

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Anderson
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:05 AM
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> If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that the paper journal is
> becoming obsolete, I wouldn't have to come to work anymore.

Just because people say it a lot doesn't mean it's not true. :-)

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dir. for Scholarly Resources & Collections Marriott Library University of Utah rick.anderson@utah.edu
801-721-1687