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Technical Services: Serials Review 2011

Serials Review Tool

The Serials Review Tool created by Ross Shanley-Roberts for the 2011 review is available here:

http://dog.lib.muohio.edu/~rshanley/perrev2010/index.php

You will need to sign in with your Miami Unique ID and Password.  Please notify Jennifer Bazeley or Aaron Shrimplin if you are unable to log in.

Reviewing and updating periodicals is done by choosing the subect area that you are responsible for under the "Review and Update Periodicals" area, and clicking "Send Selector".

You may also view already-reviewed periodicals by choosing your subject area or name from the drop-down menus under "View Reviewed Updated Periodical Subscriptions".

NOTE: Due to some fund code/selector updates, there are approximately a dozen titles for review which are showing under outdated funds in the tool.  Please see this Excel spreadsheet for for titles and selector names.

Decision lists can be viewed by clicking on the links at the bottom of the page.

Information included for each title under Review and Update:

Amounts:  Percentage breakdowns for titles in the subject area based on decisions entered for each title.

Selector:  Subject selector as recorded in our Millennium order records; if you feel one of these to be incorrect, please notify Jennifer Bazeley.

Call Number:  For print titles, call number reflects shelf location; for electronic only titles, call number is a reference only.

Print Usage:  Total number of Internal Uses for each volume/issue, as recorded by Millennium (these numbers are for total uses over life of periodical in catalog; III does not allow us to break down these numbers by year or month).

Online Usage:  Online usage is available for many (but not all) of our electronic journals; use is broken down by month and year.  Numbers come from COUNTER reports provided by the publishers/vendors.  See the Additional Information box to the right for more information about the COUNTER report standard.  NOTE: if you find a print + electronic subscription accessed via Ingenta, and there is no link for Online Usage in the review tool, it means there were no online uses of that title in 2009 or 2010.

Title:  Title of journal as it appears in the catalog.

Format:  Print Only, Print & Electronic, or Electronic Only.  This column represents the subscription model that we pay for; aggregator access is entirely separate from what this column indicates.  See spreadsheet in the box to the right for a list of aggregators versus individually paid-for journal platforms.

First Year Payment:  First year payment RECORDED IN III.  We may have been subscribing to this journal for longer than what you see represented here; most periodical payments in III begin in the early 2000s.

Last Year Payment:  Most recent payment made for the title.

Average Payment:  Average of all payments.  Double-check individual year payments by clicking on the dollar amount in this column.  Keep in mind that we sometimes make more than one payment in a year for a given title due to price changes or errors in invoicing.

EBSCO:  Electronic holdings availability as recorded in our Ebsco Online Resources A to Z List.  Each link indicates the platform, year coverage, and any embargo on that particular holding.

Undecided, Keep, Maybe, Cancel:  Radio buttons to indicate selector decisions for each title.

Comments:  Free text area for comments.  If you would like to be able to pull a report later based on information you put in these columns, try to use consistent wording in each for easier retrieval.

Subscription Packages

Download a spreadsheet of all subscription packages

Types of packages:

  • "Comes With" Titles (titles we subscribe to which include one or more titles for “free”)
  • Package Titles
  • Membership Titles

Membership and package titles were inadvertently left out of the serials tool.  They can also be canceled as part of the serials review by notifying Jennifer Bazeley.

"Comes with" titles do show up in the serials review tool.  If you cancel a title in column E of this worksheet, the title next to it in column D will also be canceled.

 

2011 Serials Review Decisions

Cancellations

The spreadsheet containing the serial titles to be cancelled for 2012 as a result of the serials review can be downloaded here.


Format Changes

Download the spreadsheet with the titles moving to online only for 2012.

Additional Information

COUNTER Reports

COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources), launched in 2002, is an international initiative to improve the reliability of online usage statistics. It is supported by the vendor, intermediary and librarian communities. COUNTER’s objective is to ensure that vendor online usage reports are credible, compatible and consistent. This is achieved by the publication of Codes of Practice that specify the content, format, delivery mechanisms and data processing rules for a set of core usage reports that are easily implemented by vendors and easily understood by librarians.

The report used for the usage statistics in the Serials Review Tool is Journal Report 1: Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month and Journal.


Aggregators vs. Individual Subscription E-Journals

There are two methods of obtaining access to electronic resources--through an aggregator, where we pay for a large package of titles of the vendor's choosing, and through subscription to individual titles, where we choose and pay for single titles.  In the Serials Review Tool, the Format column reflects the type of subscription we have to the individual journal.  Individual journal subscriptions can generally be purchased in one of three combinations:  Print Only, Print & Electronic, and Electronic Only. 

In the EBSCO column, you will see links to both the aggregator content and to the individually subscribed content.  We have no control over the aggregator content--although we pay for the content, we do not select the content on a title by title basis--content may come and go at the vendor's discretion.  Individually subscribed content is content we choose to subscribe to and pay for on a title by title basis. 

The spreadsheet below contains a list of aggregators and a list of individually subscribed hosts/vendors/platforms so that you can determine where access is coming from for individual titles you find in the Review Tool.

Aggregators and Individual Subscription Platforms spreadsheet

OhioLINK EJC Titles Added 2010-

New journal titles added to the EJC

Most should be represented in our catalog already; more recent additions may take 1-2 months to show up, however.  When a title that Miami subscribes to locally is added to the EJC, we cancel our existing local subscription.