From: Karen Cassel, Manager, Serials and Electronic Acquisitions

MEMORANDUM

To: Ilo Maimets

From: Karen Cassel, Manager, Serials and Electronic Acquisitions

Re: Monthly report: January 2010

Date: Feb 1, 2010

New Products added this month:

Bibliography of English Women Writers 1500 – 1640; via Iter

International African bibliography (ejournal to replace print)

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ejournal)

E-Books at Scholars Portal

Clues (ejournal)

Frontiers in ecology and the environment (ejournal)

Science signaling (ejournal)

International Journal of Learning and Media (ejournal)

Trials:

Access Medicine

Naxos video library

Updates and changes

Health and medical journals formerly provided by Taylor and Francis, are now being provided under a separate package, Informa Healthcare, via CRKN. I created a new provider for Informa Healthcare in Muler and moved183 titles over from the Taylor and Francis record. All of the URL’s and holdings needed to be changed, and 21 new titles were also added. Informa Healthcare has a policy to include all backfiles from v.1, in most cases, for as long as we continue to subscribe, but perpetual access is only for the years covered by the subscription, ie 1997 onwards. This is very beneficial to us as it gives us access to many backfiles that we otherwise would not have, at no additional cost.

JSTOR moving wall – I updated all of the applicable titles with added holdings, in both Muler and Sirsi, and at the same time updated the table for what we need to weed this summer. There are over 1600 titles in JSTOR. We have about 500 titles that require ongoing weeding as new volumes are added.

Sage. I was surprised to find out early in January that Sage journals would no longer be hosted on CSA Illumina. For now I have changed all of the URL”s to point directly to Sage, as only about a third of the titles are on Scholars Portal, and of those, not all of the holdings are loaded yet. I will continue to monitor this.

Here is a summary of the updating activities this month:

Product / Added
American chemical society / 2
BioOne / 1
Cairn / 4
Cambridge Univ Press / 4
DOAJ / 28
Hindawi / 10
IEEE / 1
Informa Healthcare / 21
Jstage / 1
JSTOR / 4
LION / 5
Project Muse / 2
Taylor and Francis / 11
Wiley / 1

Other

Usage statistics. I have been working hard to collect our usage statistics for 2009. This is close to being complete, with the big exception of resources hosted on Scholars Portal. With all of the changes there, usage is not currently available. I have not been given a projection on when the usage will be ready to retrieve. Included with this report is the usage obtained so far. Additional figures will be added as they become available, and as usual, detailed statistics are to be found on H/Public/Permanent/Cassel/Usage and name of product.

Move of materials from SMIL to the stacks. The move of SMIL serials directly to the stacks without coming to our dept first was very problematical for us, and I don’t know why or how that would have happened. I been asked several times since last summer how I’d like them to be handled, and I was clear that they needed to come here first in order to update Kardex and Sirsi with the correct location, send the current issues to the Periodical Reading Room. Itwas a scramble to figure out what titles were affected and to get them corrected – this did not need to happen and staff in SMIL and serials were unnecessarily inconvenienced by the process.

Date due slips. As of the beginning of January, date due slips are no longer being affixed and Binding staff have been informed. As well, Serials staff no longer need to use flyers to identify what circulates and what does not (this is how staff in Binding knew whether or not a date due slip was required in annuals).

YUSA II student. We were asked to lay off our student without notice. Ella Purisman has been working 2 days a week, to do labelling and binding functions since Amelia Verna was not replaced when she retired. Ella has been a big help to us.

Staff changes. Seven staff in the dept were informed that their hours will change, effective in April, to 4 days a week.

Stuart Silcox visited from Swets

Khal Rudin visited from Adam Matthews Digital

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