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May 1997
Transforming Libraries While Preserving
Library of Congress Joins CIRLA Electronic Journals: A New Piece in
In Our Cites: Electronic Resources Reserve Materials Form Available Electronically Special Collections Catalog Available |
Electronic Journals:
A New Piece in the Digital Puzzle
Journal publishers, librarians, and others in the information business are experimenting with ways to make their journals available online. In early 1997 the Libraries began subscribing to over 250 full text electronic journals, providing Georgetown University faculty and students campus-wide online access to the complete contents of these journals. The Library has subscribed to these electronic periodical titles through: PROJECT MUSE (sponsored by Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library) has 40 titles in the social sciences and humanities J-STOR (sponsored by the Mellon Foundation) has 22 core journal titles which will eventually total 100 titles. Their goal is to provide back files of core journals, beginning with their first volume, rather than access to current issues. IDEAL, a journal project undertaken by Academic Press, consists of 171 of their current titles in science and medicine. Other major publishers for instance, Elsevier, Springer Verlag, Blackwell, and scholarly societies like the American Institute of Physics and the Institute of Physics (Britain) are also developing similar projects. All electronic journals to which the libraries subscribe will be cataloged. Users searching the Web version of GEORGE can connect directly to these electronic journals from the record in the catalog. Users searching the text version of GEORGE will see "Internet" for the location and will find the URL included in the record. The electronic journals are also available in an alphabetical list on the Library's homepage listed under Electronic Periodicals. For now the alphabetical list will likely include more titles as we work out the process of cataloging these electronic journals. These periodicals are limited to workstations connected to the Georgetown University campuswide network. Electronic journals are new and still experimental. One as yet unanswered question is whether they can replace print for current periodical issues and bound periodicals or microforms for the archival record. The libraries on the Main Campus, Law Center and Medical Center are collaborating in testing and evaluating the different financial and technological models for electronic journals to ensure that the online journals available today are here for Georgetown scholars tomorrow. Some of the many titles include: Project Muse
J-Stor
Ideal
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