ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL DIGEST SERIALST Commercial Digest pilot project: Since June 2008, the SERIALST moderators have been experimenting with compiling and distributing a Commercial Digest once a week, on Friday afternoons, with messages containing informational content from commercial bodies (i.e., publishers, vendors, agents, etc.). The moderators review submitted messages for informational content that may interest our subscribers. We reserve the right to reject messages that are purely for advertising or product/service solicitation, with little or no informational content beyond the solicitation, as well as other content that are not within the scope and purpose guidelines of SERIALST (see: http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/serialst.html) If you have thoughts or feedback about the Commercial digest, or other aspects of SERIALST, please let us hear from you. Contact information for the SERIALST moderators is at: http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/serialst.html#contacts This week's digest contains 4 messages: 1. Improvements for Bioscience Reports 2. Some results from Higher Education Interlibrary Loan Management Benchmarks 3. New Librarian Resource Center now live on SAGE website 4. Multilingual Matters/Channel View Transition update 1. Improvements for Bioscience Reports Portland Press is delighted to report that in the first year since it took over publication of Bioscience Reports it has seen a number of improvements. If you used to receive access to this journal through SpringerLink please check your records to see whether you have access from the new website. www.bioscirep.org NEWS: Impact factor – Increase to 3.115 ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 74/156 (Cell Biology category) (2007 Impact Factor, calculated by ISI(®), released June 2008) - All six issues of the journal were published on schedule providing researchers with recent advances across the whole breadth of the life sciences, publishing original articles and reviews on topics including biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology. New Editor-in Chief – Professor Wanjin Hong, A*STAR, Singapore, has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief. Bioscience Reports now offers Opt2Pay – making it fully compliant to publishing body mandates. Authors are now able to choose to pre pay to make the Version of Record of their journal articles freely available immediately on publication, on payment of a licence fee. 'My BSR' – allows you to set up your own personal profile so the journal recognizes your preferences each time you visit, taking you directly to the content covering your own research interests. You can also store links to all your favourite articles in your personal filing cabinet. Are you a past subscriber? If you used to receive online access to Bioscience Reports through SpringerLink please contact us to renew your access. Email: sales@portlandpress.com Portland Press Ltd Commerce Way Colchester CO2 8HP, UK Tel: +44 1206 796351 2. Some results from Higher Education Interlibrary Loan Management Benchmarks Primary Research Group has published Higher Education Interlibrary Loan Management Benchmarks, ISBN # 1-57440-112-2. The 200-page study presents data on interlibrary loan operations from more than 80 colleges in the United States and Canada. The report presents highly detailed data on loan volume, copyright concerns, data reporting, shipping fees, departmental organization, staffing, lines of authority, use of software, methods of determining productivity levels, provisions for the loan of unique or highly specialized materials, budgets and fees, methods of determining end user preference, licensing agreements and much more. Just a few of the report’s many findings are that: • Close to 15% of the libraries in the sample have performed a user survey of ILL services within the past four years. • Mean turnaround time for borrowing requests for books was longer, a mean of 7.67 days, 8.7 for public colleges and 6.31 for private colleges. Requests from Canada took longer to fulfill than requests from the United States, by a considerable margin of more than 1.5 days. • Mean spending for the libraries in the sample on shipping & courier fees related to interlibrary loan was $6,857, with a median of just $2,042. • Close to 66% of the libraries in the sample allow interlibrary loan of college textbooks. • More than 86% of private colleges in the sample participate in a state borrowing network, while 71.7% of public college libraries participate in one. • 73% of the libraries in the sample use fax delivery for interlibrary loan fulfillment. • A shade more than 47% of the libraries in the sample use their interlibrary loan facilities to facilitate loans of materials between campuses or units of their own institution. • For more than 57% of the libraries in the sample, use of photocopies in interlibrary loan had decreased and had increased for only 9.1%. • 29.17% of the libraries in the sample strongly agree with the statement that interlibrary loan staff should have the individual in charge of database licenses also verify license issues. • Close to 13% of the libraries surveyed strongly agreed that license issue questions relating to interlibrary loan at their institution are handled on an ad hoc, as-needed basis, without a written set or practices. • For about 21.2% of the libraries surveyed, the ILL department is under the auspices of the library’s reference department. • 17.65% of the colleges in the sample, the DD/EDD function is under the auspices of the access services. All were U.S.-based colleges and, in general, the more complex the degree offered, the more likely that the college was to have the DD/EED function under the auspices of the access services department. • 21.69% of the libraries in the sample used WorldCat Local. • 20% of the libraries in the sample have ever tried to negotiate broader license terms for institutional and patron use of their digital collections, specifically for interlibrary loan. • 40% of the libraries in the sample report their in-state loans in their ILL statistics. More than 59% of community colleges did so. • Close to 40% of the libraries in the sample require an MLS or MLIS librarian to supervise the interlibrary loan or document delivery department. • 72.6% of the libraries in the sample do not charge for document delivery or for interlibrary loan and 19.2% charge to defray some, but less than half, of the total cost. Data is broken out by size and type of college, for public and private colleges, and for colleges in the USA and in Canada. For further information, view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com. 3. New Librarian Resource Center now live on SAGE website SAGE is pleased to announce it has now transformed the SAGE Librarians' Website into a user-friendly Librarian Resource Center. We hope the new design and layout will enable our library and consortia customers to find the information they need as quickly and easily as possible. Visit www.sagepub.com/librarians to browse the new site featuring: --The most current journals price list, new journals and changes, and information on subscription options --News and Announcements, including press releases and archives of SAGE Librarians' Newsletters --Information on SAGE's electronic products, including title lists and brochures for SAGE Premier, the SAGE Deep Backfile Package, and SAGE eReference --Special page highlighting SAGE's offerings for medical and hospital libraries --Instructions for managing online subscriptions on SAGE Journals Online Promotional tools, including training materials for new customers and usage driving materials for current customers --Contact information for regional Library Consortia/Sales managers and Technical Support ...and much more! This is the first phase of the launch and as we continue to have updated materials and product announcements for 2009, we will update the site accordingly. If you have any questions regarding the new Librarian Resource Center or suggestions on how we may improve it further, please let the SAGE Library Team know by contacting laura.paterson@sagepub.com. Sincerely, Valerie Johns Associate Director Journals Marketing SAGE valerie.johns@sagepub.com www.sagepub.com www.sagepub.com/librarians 4. Multilingual Matters/Channel View Transition update Dear Serialst, Please see below for a message we are currently distributing to customers that may also be of interest to the list. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I wanted to provide you with an update on the transition of Multilingual Matters Limited (MML) Journals to informaworld, as some of the details of our original plan have changed. Transition timeline All of the former MML/Channel View titles are now available on informaworld and we have finalised loading all journal content. We had originally planned to dual host with http://www.multilingual-matters.net, the former online platform until 28th February. As of today we have installed title-level redirects from the http://www.multilingual-matters.net site to informaworld. Online access Your institution’s online access should have transferred automatically. We have made access to this content free until the end of February so as not to cause disruption to your library users whilst we follow up any access queries we have received. We do advise that you double check your access to these titles is correct in the interim. In order to help, a list of titles covered by this transition is available at: http://www.informaworld.com/mpp/uploads/mlm-titles.xls Usage statistics We advise all subscribers to download their usage statistics from the http://www.multilingual-matters.net site between now and February 28th if they will be required. Link resolvers MML/Channel View content is currently appearing in the feeds we provide to link resolver intermediaries including Serials Solutions, Ex Libris, TD Net and Ebsco Industries A-Z. We will add to this as further MML/Channel View content is made available online at informaworld. All content will be in the February updates we provide to these suppliers. Your patience and co-operation in dealing with this migration at what is a busy time for you is very much appreciated. Do contact the informaworld support desk at support@informaworld.com if you have need any extra help to make this transition as smooth as possible for you and your users. With kind regards, Jennifer McMillan Library Marketing Manager Taylor & Francis Group Journals
