In the present economic climate, which has seen library budgets decrease, and South Carolina’s PASCAL (their counterpart to Georgia’s GALILEO) lose 90% of its funding, one thing remains steady: the rising prices of periodical subscriptions and electronic resource licenses. For the rundown, including tables with periodical costs by discipline, please visit this link to Library Journal’s annual Periodicals Price Survey.
Posts Tagged 'journals'
Reality Bites: Periodicals Price Survey 2009
Published April 27, 2009 GALILEO , Resources and Services 0 CommentsTags: budget cuts, cancellations, databases, donations, donors, GALILEO, gil express, journals, periodicals, serials, subscriptions
Journal Citation Reports and Eigenfactor
Published March 31, 2009 Resources and Services 0 CommentsTags: citations, eigenfactor, impact factor, journal citation reports, journals, ranking
Faculty members, did you know that there’s a free online resource that provides the data found in Journal Citation Reports?
Check out Eigenfactor, which is based upon Journal Citation Reports and has become widely used in determining the value of individual journals. It even provides journal rankings by subject area! Here’s an article with more details about Eigenfactor, and here’s their own page of frequently asked questions.
Now that you know the scoop, you can impress your colleagues with your wisdom!
New Interface for Electronic Journals
Published January 14, 2009 GALILEO , Resources and Services 0 CommentsTags: a-z, databases, e-journals, GALILEO, interface, journals, periodicals, serials, sfx
Dear Patrons,
Last year, GALILEO implemented SFX software to provide the e-journal A-Z list and links for GALILEO databases. Many of you are already familiar with the SFX interface from GALILEO’s usage of it; a brief overview is available at http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/UsingSFX.
As of January 1, 2009, Henderson Library has made the switch from EBSCO A-Z software for providing links to electronic journals to the SFX A-Z software. (No worries, we still have the EBSCO databases!) The “Electronic Journals A-Z” link from the Library’s home page has been changed to link to the SFX A-Z list. Although the look of the new list is very different from the previous one, it contains the same type of information. More changes are coming to make the list more user-friendly.
You will also see a new look for information for individual titles in the library catalog. There will no longer be a “click here” message in the records to link to full text. That message has been replaced by the following:
“Click FIND IT button above.”
The “find it” button is at the top of the record to the left of the “brief display” button, and only appears if there are electronic holdings.
“Click FIND IT button above.”
The “find it” button is at the top of the record to the left of the “brief display” button, and only appears if there are electronic holdings.
Activating access to titles through SFX and changing the library catalog notes/links to SFX are manual tasks. We have activated most of the titles and periodical packages and converted many of the notes/links, but you will continue to see the old “click here” notes until we complete the systematic review each title.
If you encounter a link that does not work correctly, please contact Debra Skinner, Catalog Librarian, at dskinner@georgiasouthern.edu, and we will correct the problem as quickly as possible. In your message, please include the journal title and a brief description of the problem.
Since we are still in the process of activating some titles, we recommend checking both the Henderson Library and the GALILEO electronic journal A-Z lists, since a title might be in one place and not the other at this point. (The GALILEO list is at the yellow tab marked “Journals A-Z.”)
Please ask us about any link that does not work the way that you think it should. In other words, if in doubt, please report it!
If you need additional information about this change, please contact the Henderson Library Learning Commons Desk (478-5645) or submit your request via Ask a Librarian (http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/forms/askzach.html)
Thank you, from your friends at the Zach S. Henderson Library!
Google Book Search expands to magazines
Published December 9, 2008 Uncategorized 0 CommentsTags: e-journals, ebooks, GALILEO, google, google book search, google books, information literacy, information services, instruction, journals, magazines, periodicals, reference, serials, subject specialists
Google Book Search announced today that they are adding magazines and journals (a.k.a. serials or periodicals). Here’s the scoop. Here’s the search. Remember also that you’ll be able to access more full-text online articles via GALILEO, and Henderson Library’s collection (online, print, etc.) contains a wealth of resources that you won’t be able to access via Google Book Search. These should all be parts of your research repertoire, along with our Subject Specialist Librarians who are at your service, ready to assist you anytime in person, or via IM/chat, e-mail, or phone.
Libraries and the Economic Crisis
Published November 12, 2008 Uncategorized 1 CommentTags: budget cuts, cancellations, databases, donations, donors, GALILEO, gil express, journals, periodicals, serials, subscriptions
Higher education in the United States is struggling financially. Library budgets are being squeezed, forcing cancellations of databases, journal subscriptions, book purchases, etc. GIL Express, the University System of Georgia’s expedited delivery of books among USG Libraries, is operating under emergency funds through the end of the fall semester, and there are no promises after that. As Bloomberg reports, The University of Georgia Libraries are “canceling at least 660 journals to save $1.66 million annually.”
The Zach S. Henderson Library at Georgia Southern University is also having to make deep cuts in our information supply. You’ll be hearing from us soon about a full subscription review. All of our ongoing subscriptions to databases, journals, and other continuing resources will have to be critically considered, and we will rely upon our faculty experts across campus to make recommendations for canceling the least essential resources. We strive to deliver the necessary information and services, even in the current economic crisis; in this way we hope to continue to achieve our mission. Thank you for your understanding and your support. Please see below for one way you can help.
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For $125 Henderson Library is offering unframed prints of this Frank Fortune photograph of the renovated library building. Each print is reproduced on watercolor paper and autographed by Mr. Fortune. Contact the Dean of the Library’s Office, 478-5115. Details on additional giving opportunities in support of Henderson Library are available here.
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Web of Science Enhanced
Published June 11, 2008 GALILEO , Resources and Services 0 CommentsTags: citation index, GALILEO, isi, journals, web of knowledge, web of science
We’re pleased to announce that 700 regional journals have now been added to Web of Science.
“The newly identified collection contains journals that typically target a regional rather than international audience by approaching subjects from a local perspective or focusing on particular topics of regional interest.
For more than two years, Thomson Reuters has reviewed thousands of regional journals in all areas of science, social science and arts and humanities. Although selection criteria for a regional journal are fundamentally the same as for an international journal, the importance of the regional journal is measured in terms of the specificity of its content rather than in its citation impact.”
The full announcement is here. The full list of journals covered is here.
Here’s the description of Web of Science, via GALILEO:
“Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index covering over 8,000 journals. These three databases can be searched separately, in any combination, or all at once. These databases are unique in that the user can search to find which articles have cited a certain author or article. This technique of doing research, called pearl growing, allows researchers to find articles that are related to an earlier work. Often this technique turns up articles which are not found through traditional subject and keyword searches.”
