The downside of scholarly electronic publishing: Problems in accessing electronic journals through online directories and catalogs

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 335-346

  Ford, Charlotte E ^a   Harter, Stephen P ^a  

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EID: 0032389969     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.59.4.335     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. William A. Katz, Introduction to Reference Work, 7th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997), 45-46, 106.
2. For a discussion of best-selling Internet directories, see, for example, Paul Hilts, "Yahoo! No More Catch 22," Publishers Weekly 242 (Oct. 1995): 32.
3. More extensive treatment of these and other challenges facing e-journal catalogers can be found in Kristin H. Gerhard, "Cataloging Internet Resources: Practical Issues and Concerns," Serials Librarian 32:1/2 (1997): 123-37;
4. Eric Lease Morgan, "Adding Internet Resources to Our OPACS," Serials Review 21, no. 4 (1995): 70-72.
5. More extensive treatment of these and other challenges facing e-journal catalogers can be found in Kristin H. Gerhard, "Cataloging Internet Resources: Practical Issues and Concerns," Serials Librarian 32:1/2 (1997): 123-37; Janet Swan Hill effectively highlights some of the issues involved in cataloging Internet resources in "The Elephant in the Catalog: Cataloging Animals You Can't See or Touch," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 23, no. 1 (1996): 18-24. Janet Swan Hill effectively highlights some of the issues involved in cataloging Internet resources in "The Elephant in the Catalog: Cataloging Animals You Can't See or Touch," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 23, no. 1 (1996): 18-24.
6. For descriptions of some of the efforts to build and maintain e-journal directories, see Robert D. Cameron, "Not Just E-Journals: Providing and Maintaining Access to Serials and Serial Information through the World-Wide Web," Serials Librarian 23, no. 3/4 (1996): 209-22;
7. More extensive treatment of these and other challenges facing e-journal catalogers can be found in Kristin H. Gerhard, "Cataloging Internet Resources: Practical Issues and Concerns," Serials Librarian 32:1/2 (1997): 123-37; Eric Lease Morgan, "Adding Internet Resources to Our OPACS," Serials Review 21, no. 4 (1995): 70-72. Janet Swan Hill effectively highlights some of the issues involved in cataloging Internet resources in "The Elephant in the Catalog: Cataloging Animals You Can't See or Touch," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 23, no. 1 (1996): 18-24. Bonnie McEwan and Mira Geffner, "The Committee on Institutional Cooperation Electronic: Journals Collection (CIC-EJC): A New Model for Library Management of Scholarly Journals Published on the Internet," Public-Access Computer Systems Review 7, no. 4 (1996), available at http:// info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n4/mace7n4.html. Bonnie McEwan and Mira Geffner, "The Committee on Institutional Cooperation Electronic: Journals Collection (CIC-EJC): A New Model for Library Management of Scholarly Journals Published on the Internet," Public-Access Computer Systems Review 7, no. 4 (1996), available at http:// info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n4/mace7n4.html.
8. The e-journal access problems and issues are discussed in detail in Stephen P. Harter and Hak Joon Kim, "Accessing Electronic Journals and Other E-Publications: An Empirical Study," College & Research Libraries 57 (Sept. 1996): 447-49. The citation study of which this is a part is
9. For descriptions of some of the efforts to build and maintain e-journal directories, see Robert D. Cameron, "Not Just E-Journals: Providing and Maintaining Access to Serials and Serial Information through the World-Wide Web," Serials Librarian 23, no. 3/4 (1996): 209-22; Bonnie McEwan and Mira Geffner, "The Committee on Institutional Cooperation Electronic: Journals Collection (CIC-EJC): A New Model for Library Management of Scholarly Journals Published on the Internet," Public-Access Computer Systems Review 7, no. 4 (1996), available at http:// info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n4/mace7n4.html. Stephen P. Harter's "The Impact of Electronic Journals on Scholarly Communication: A Citation Analysis," Public-Access Computer Systems Review 7, no. 5 (1996): 5-34, available at http:// info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n5/harter.7n5. Stephen P. Harter's "The Impact of Electronic Journals on Scholarly Communication: A Citation Analysis," Public-Access Computer Systems Review 7, no. 5 (1996): 5-34, available at http:// info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n5/harter.7n5.
10. Harter and Kim, "Accessing Electronic Journals and Other E-Publications," 453.
11. th edition, available at http://www.arl.org/scomm/edir/).
12. MacEwan and Geffner, "The Committee on Institutional Cooperation Electronic Journals Collection (CIC-EJC)."
13. Harter and Kim, "Accessing Electronic Journals and Other E-Publications," 443.
14. A quick summary of some of the arguments for and against cataloging Internet resources appears in Erik Jul, "Why Catalog Internet Resources?" Computers in Libraries 16 (Jan. 1996): 8-9. For an article that more directly addresses the issues surrounding the cataloging of e-journals, see
15. Ellen Finnie Duranceau, ed., "Cataloging Remote-Access Electronic Serials: Rethinking the Role of the OPAC," Serials Review 21 (winter 1995): 67-77 , which brings together the viewpoints of five librarians on these issues.
16. More detailed explanations of URNs and PURLs can be found in the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program's "The Relationship between URNs, Handles, and PURLs" (1997), available at http://learning.loc.gov/ammem/award/docs/PURL-handle.html, and in
17. A quick summary of some of the arguments for and against cataloging Internet resources appears in Erik Jul, "Why Catalog Internet Resources?" Computers in Libraries 16 (Jan. 1996): 8-9. For an article that more directly addresses the issues surrounding the cataloging of e-journals, see Ellen Finnie Duranceau, ed., "Cataloging Remote-Access Electronic Serials: Rethinking the Role of the OPAC," Serials Review 21 (winter 1995): 67-77 , which brings together the viewpoints of five librarians on these issues. Stuart Weibel, Erik Jul, and Keith Shafer, "PURLs: Persistent Uniform Resource Locators," (1996), available at http://purl.odc.org/OCLC/PURL/SUMMARY. Stuart Weibel, Erik Jul, and Keith Shafer, "PURLs: Persistent Uniform Resource Locators," (1996), available at http://purl.odc.org/OCLC/PURL/SUMMARY.