Good idea, Sylvia;  I may use a similar message for our freely
accessible journals dbs, in Serials Solutions, as nothing is more
irritating to users than finding inaccurate dates of access--and
irritating to me when I am unaware of the publisher's adjustment or
withdrawal of the same.

Thanks for bringing this up, Tom.

Joanne Romano, MLS
Licensing and Serials Librarian

Houston Academy of Medicine
Texas Medical Center Library
1133 John Freeman Blvd.
Houston, TX  77030

joanne.romano@exch.library.tmc.edu
www.library@tmc.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Sylvia McAphee
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:07 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Freely Accessible Database Holdings

Good morning,

We have had some problems with this as well.  We have added the
following statement to the database for the titles:

This title is provided free on the Internet. Access to contents may
change without warning.

This has helped us out tremendously.

Thanks!

Sincerely,

Sylvia McAphee, M.L.I.S., AHIP
Serials Librarian/Assistant Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
LHL 240A-1700 University Blvd.
1530 3rd Ave. So.
Birmingham, AL 35294-0013
205-934-2299 direct
205-934-3545 fax
smcaphee@uab.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Evans, Thomas W
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:47 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Freely Accessible Database Holdings

Hello out there. I'm not sure if this topic has been addressed before;
if so, I'm sorry to bring it up again. I've been noticing that a lot of
these titles are not available up to the dates they say they are. For
instance, "The Journal of Experimental Medicine" has the following
Serials Solutions holdings: "Freely Accessible Science Journals
01/01/1896 to present" when there actually seems to be a 6 month embargo
(i.e. most current available is April). Has anyone else noticed this? If
so, how do you handle it (i.e. a default holdings statement for all
these databases?)? There are a lot of titles in these databases, which
I'm sure you're aware, and it would be impracticable if not impossible
to edit them one-by-one. Also, is this a Serials Solutions problem? I'm
going to contact them about this and will share their response and all
responses with the list. Thanks in advance for your help.

Sincerely,

Tom Evans
Serials Librarian
Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library
Canisius College
2001 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14208
evans@canisius.edu
Phone: 716-888-8418
Fax: 716-888-8420