Forum on Access to Electronic Journals from Aggregator Sources Virginia Commonwealth University January 7, 2000 Objective: Learn how VIVA campuses connect users to full text periodicals from VIVA aggregator services, including Gale Group InfoTrac and Dow Jones Interactive.  Who should attend?  Reference, Cataloging and Systems personnel at VIVA institutions. What should I bring? Examples of web e-journal lists and e-journal cataloging policies; suggestions on how VIVA can help improve access to full text in periodical databases. Presentations: Background Issues. Eileen Hitchingham (Virginia Tech University)            Agenda Radford University. Doris Hendrickson Old Dominion University. Edward Summers Virginia Commonwealth University. Jimmy Ghaphery Generation of MARC Records from VCU's Ejournal Database. Barbara Anderson What's happening elsewhere? Elaine Day (James Madison University) Examples from the University of Virginia. Allison Sleeman VIVA examples: Old Dominion University:  http://www.lib.odu.edu/forms/periodicalsearch.shtml [link no longer active, 2/11/2008]        About: http://libstaff.lib.odu.edu/depts/systems/iii/scripts/periodicals_database/ [link no longer active, 2/11/2008] Radford University:  http://lib.runet.edu/libserv/journals.html [link no longer active, 2/11/2008] Virginia Commonwealth University:  http://www.library.vcu.edu/ejournals/index.html [link no longer active, 2/11/2008]        VCU's MarcMakr web form: http://www.library.vcu.edu/cfapps/jbc/instruct/vivamarc.cfm [link no longer active, 2/11/2008] Vendor title lists: Dow Jones:  http://ask.djinteractive.com/ [link no longer active, 2/11/2008] Gale Group (InfoTrac):  http://www.galegroup.com/library/resrcs/catalog/tlist.htm [link no longer active, 2/11/2008] Lexis-Nexis:  http://cisweb.lexis-nexis.com/marketsource/reports.htm [link no longer active, 2/11/2008] Proquest: http://www.umi.com/hp/Support/Titles/ [link no longer active, 2/11/2008] Other initiatives: Buddy Web-based Gateway (University of Melbourne): http://www.csu.edu.au/special/online99/proceedings99/203a.htm  Jake Project (Yale University): http://jake.med.yale.edu/about.html [link no longer active, 2/11/2008] Interim Report PCC Standing Committee on Automation (SCA) Task Group on Journals in Aggregator Databases http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/aggupdrpt.html References:    Kiehl, Carole E., and Edward H. Summers. "Comprehensive Access to Periodicals: a Database Solution."  Preprint of article forthcoming in the journal Library Collections, Aquisitions, and Technical Services.  Available:  http://libstaff.lib.odu.edu/~esummers/periodicalsdb/ [link no longer active, 2/11/2008]    Britton, William A., et al. "Access to Periodicals Holdings Information: Creating Links Between Databases and the Library  Catalog."  Preprint of article forthcoming in the journal Library Collections, Aquisitions, and Technical Services.   Available: http://zuma.lib.utk.edu/h2h/ [link no longer active, 2/11/2008] Sponsors: VIVA Steering Committee, Eileen Hitchingham, Dean of Libraries, Virginia Tech (hitch@vt.edu) Virginia Commonwealth University, John Duke (jkduke@vcu.edu) VIVA Task Force on Cataloging and Intellectual Access, Elaine Day, chair (eday@averett.edu) Wrap-up: Summary of Group Discussion

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