From: "Kearney, Richard" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 11:29:51 +0000 Eric has a point about the user-unfriendliness of many library search tools ... which is one reason why I've thought it would be better if libraries were more heavily invested in developing them than corporations. *************************************************** Richard Kearney Electronic Resources Librarian David and Lorraine Cheng Library William Paterson University 300 Pompton Road Wayne, NJ 07470 Tel. 973.720.2165 Fax 973.720.2585 [log in to unmask] *************************************************** ________________________________________ 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