From: Byron Russell <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 08:04:30 +0000 Here at Ingenta Connect any library that is signed up as a system administrator simple has to enter "View existing subscriptions" to see a list of all the subscriptions the library has access to on the Ingenta Connect service. This service is completely free, and faculty can be given access rights. The subscription list can be downloaded as a .csv It would be relatively easy to expand this service to include all subscriptions, whether or not these were for publishers who were using Ingenta as a platform provider. Byron Russell Head of Ingenta Connect Ingenta Tel. +44 (0)1865 397881 Mob. +44 (0)7900 494258 [log in to unmask] www.ingentaopen.com www.ingentaconnect.com ingenta.com | Blog | @weareingenta -----Original Message----- 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] | ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++