MEMORANDUM
To: Ilo Maimets
From: Karen Cassel, Manager, Serials and Electronic Acquisitions
Re: Monthly report: November 2009
Date: Nov 30, 2009
New Products added this month:
Proquest Dissertations and Theses UK and Ireland (via Proquest – free as long as we keep our paid subscription to Index to Theses with Portland Press)
Critical Disability Discourse (OJS)
Canadian book review annual (we will join OCUL)
Trials:
SimplyMap
Linguistic bibliography online (Brill)
Global Health, and Global Health Archive (Ebsco)
Updates and changes
More than a year ago, when Haworth was taken over by Taylor Francis, we provided a list of backfiles to which we had online access because of our print holdings, with the understanding that Taylor & Francis would honour this access. After all this time, we finally got a response that they will restore access to these titles and the back holdings.
When we received the Wiley-Blackwell CRKN renewal, there was a list of about 40 titles that will be excluded in 2010. Some of these were titles for which we cancelled print several years back. I reviewed the usage statistics for 2008 and 2009 for this group of titles, and found that there were 5 titles with very high use. I contacted Diane Conroy and asked her to have these added to our portfolio; the cost will be about $2500
The CRKN renewals are coming in quickly this month and I am reviewing them as needed and ensuring the renewals are signed and faxed back.
I moved all of the JSTAGE titles (Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator) from DOAJ as the provider, to their own record. There are over 500 titles provided free from this source.
Here is a summary of the updating activities this month:
Academic onefile / 2
Biomed / 1
Business Source Premier / 1 / 5
Communication and Mass Media / 2
Computer database / 2
CPIQ / 43 / 2
DOAJ / 29
Expanded Academic / 68 / 1
Hein / 5
Hindawi / 3
JSTAGE / 52
JSTOR / 47
LION / 8
Oxford Reference Online / 12
Project Muse / 2
Redalyc / 6
SciELO / 2
Taylor and Francis / 1
Government Publications
Two years ago, Amanda and I reviewed the standing orders with TSO and moved many of them to Renouf for fulfillment, cancelled many, but retained the Parliamentary publications with TSO. Gloria recently expressed her intent to changing this so that we would no longer have any deposit account left with TSO. Anne McGaughey and I reviewed the list, cancelled 11 titles, and retained 2 to be supplied by Renouf (Debates of the House of Commons, and Debates of the House of Lords). The cancelled titles were reviewed for online access and links were added to the catalog if they did not already exist.
I have been filling in for Peter Duerr re the York digitization of Government documents and have thus been working with Andrea Kosavic to send off volumes of the Ontario legislative assembly sessional papers to be digitized..
Other
We learned that Circulation and Facilities will soon discontinue stamping date due slips for when charged out and checked back in. We expect to stop gluing the slips into the books very soon.
I viewed the archived LIM session from CRKN regarding the availability of tables for licences, title lists, renewal dates etc. This is going to be a very useful product.
Tuan has provided access to Muler to Tim Knight, so that Law can now do their own input, updates etc, instead of relying on me. Tim came over for some Muler training, and I provided him with a copy of the manual that I wrote recently.
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