Proquest and Ebsco now generally offer full versions of many of their
titles, including illustrations. Lexis doesn't.
Are you indicating this in some way?
I, personally, consider the words without the figures to be perhaps better
than nothing, but not at all good enough, at least in the sciences and
much of the social sciences. We will include the true page image Proquest
titles when we find someone to do it, but would never include the others.
How would you do it: journal X without the data?  yes, I know the
undergrads will use even that, but should they be encouraged to?

 David Goodman, Princeton University Biology
Library                          dgoodman@princeton.edu            609-258-3235

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Jane M Prokesh wrote:

> Cheryl,
>
> I suppose I fit into the category of "foolhardy." Yes, I am attempting
> at present to put individual holdings in for journals listed in
> Lexis/Nexis. I've "completed" ProQuest, and EBSCO looms on the horizon.
> It is intensely frustrating as the holdings seem to change by whimsey,
> and as one of my colleagues aptly describes it: "It's like trying to
> nail jello on the wall." Will be glad to offer any help I can, but it's
> mainly perserverance and data entry manually.
>
> Jane Prokesh
> Serials Cataloger
> University of Texas at Dallas
> x2962
> <jprokesh@UTDALLAS.EDU>
>
> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:15:57 -0500 "Cheryl L. Conway"
> <cconway@COMP.UARK.EDU> wrote:
>
> > I am forwarding this topic for my department head.  You can respond
> > directly to Jennifer at jkolmes@comp.uark.edu.  Thanks in advance for
> > your assistance.
> >
> >
> > "My subject is what they're calling "aggregator databases."  You know,
> > like EBSCO's Academic Search Elite,  Bell and Howell's ProQuest Direct,
> > and Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.  Essentially, they are services
> > offering access to full-text versions of varying runs of serial titles.
> > The PCC Standing Committee on Automation's Task Force on Journals in
> > Aggregator Databases was working on an EBSCO demonstration project a
> > few months ago--has anyone heard anything about that lately?  As I
> > recall, they were leaning toward recommending that holdings for
> > individual titles in these aggregators be made commercially available
> > for loading into ILSs, as opposed to libraries trying to keep this kind
> > of information current and local on their own.
> >
> > Anyway, my question is:  Are there any brave (or foolhardy, as the
> > point of view dictates) souls out there attempting to integrate
> > holdings data from these behemoths MANUALLY into their catalog records?
> > By "manually," I do not mean to exclude anyone who may be utitlizing
> > macros or other automated shortcuts; I mean by simply entering the data
> > record-by-record and attempting to keep the data up to date in a
> > similar fashion."