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How Do Libraries Choose Journals?

Discover the key factors libraries consider when choosing journals for their collections. Learn about selection criteria, peer review, impact factor, pricing, interlibrary loan, and more.

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How Do Libraries Choose Journals?

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  1. How Do Libraries Choose Journals? David Flynn, MS(LIS)

  2. Collection Development • Subject Specialists / Bibliographers • Core Title Lists • Suggestions and / or purchase requests from Faculty

  3. Collection Development • Selection • Collection Maintenance • Access

  4. Selection #1:PubMed • Is this title currently indexed in PubMed? • If not, was it ever?

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  11. Selection #2: Other Databases • If this journal is not in PubMed, is it indexed in other databases? • Ulrich’s

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  15. Selection #3: Peer Reviewed • Is this journal peer reviewed? • Ulrich’s

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  17. Selection #4: Impact Factor • Web of Science / Journal Citation Report • Like NLM Catalog, indexed under Substance Abuse and Psychiatry

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  19. Selection #5: Collected by other Libraries? • Do our peer institutions purchase this journal? • Do our aspirational peers? • WorldCat

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  24. Collection Maintenance #1: Price • Can we afford to add this title? • Will this purchase preclude other purchases? • If not, is any of the content free? Is this free content embargoed?

  25. Collection Maintenance #2: Previous ILL Requests • Over the previous year, how many times were articles from this journal requested by our patrons? • How many of these requests were filled by other libraries? • Any issues filling these requests?

  26. Collection Maintenance #3: Collected by other Boston Libraries • Is this title owned by any of the Boston Library Consortium (BLC) members? • Is this title owned by Harvard? • Is this title owned by any libraries in Massachusetts?

  27. Access #1: Concurrent users • How many “seats” (concurrent users) are we granted? • What is the fee structure for a reasonable number of users? Unlimited?

  28. Access #2: Coverage • How many years of access are granted by a subscription? • Do we get full access to backfiles? • When does this coverage start?

  29. Access #3: Maintenance • Are we required to pay an annual maintenance fee for electronic access? • For non-society publishers, is this for each title or across the entire platform?

  30. Access #4: Interlibrary Loan (ILL) • Are we allowed to loan this title to other libraries?

  31. Access #5: Access after unsubscribing / title defunct • Do we get full access to years we subscribed? • Is there a maintenance fee for access? • What is the journal’s plan for archiving material? Portico? JSTOR? PMC?

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