From: Eric Elmore <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 20:14:50 +0000

I think the answer is even simpler than that - many faculty have no
clue what journals their library actually subscribes to.  Every year
we get recommendations for subscriptions  and faculty requests from
faculty who are convinced the library is hindering their research by
not having journal xyz - only to find out that we've had subscriptions
to their title for years.

Part of this is how un-user friendly library search tools are, but
part of it is also that faculty tend to feel librarians have nothing
to teach them "about doing research". *eye roll*

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Eric Elmore                                                             |
Electronic Resources Coordinator                     |
The University of Texas at San Antonio            |
One UTSA Circle                                                     |
San Antonio, TX.  78249-0671                             |
(O)210-458-4916/(F)210-458-4577                    |
[log in to unmask]                                         |

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 10:37:28 +0100

I was waiting for Kevin to say something like this. He would be
failing in his duty if he did not do so.

The interesting thing about SciHub is that someone has shown that many
of the users have access to the articles they go to SciHib for. Why is
this? I would be interested in his views.

I would guess that more researchers have access to Elsevier toll
access articles than to the articles of any other publisher who uses
the subscription model. They certainly have more big deals and more
penetration that way than any other publisher.

Anthony