Mount A Serials: A History

19842600 Journal & Newspaper titles

1993-1995Budget crisis

CNSLP increased electronic content by 30,000 serial titles

CRKN & CAUL continued increase of holdings to 35,000 titles

Open Access Movement – Hathi Trust

BUT…. Gaps in collections: APS, AIP, IEEE

Mount A Serials: A History

2008 – Complaints by Faculty & StudentsIssues getting access to content caused by our proxy server

2010 – Graduate Studies FundBought and subscribed to additional Science content

2012 – Morton EndowmentBiology, Biochemistry, History

2013 – Continued complaints by Sciences - Still not enough access??

Complaints:• “If it is not online I am not going to read it”

• “you never have the articles I need or want”

• “why do I always get asked for my credit card #”

• “more journals fewer books”

• “no one reads books anymore – get journals”

• “not enough journal access my research is being hampered”

• “use my friends’ account at XXX to get articles”

Causes:

• Connecting patron to article

• Functionality of “journal finder”

• Poor performance of federated search engines

• Date restrictions in licence agreements• Not enough retrospective content• Publication embargoes

• Poor communication between library and faculty

Mount A Serials: A History

Spring 2013Stacks capacity - <1%!!!

AND Reference weeding project

Began overlap study of serials print to electronic contentTypical resources used – JSTOR, PAO, UPs

Needed more…

Ad Hoc Committee Formed

2013 – Ad Hoc Sciences & Libraries Collection Development Committee

5 Members

2 Librarians (Technical Services - Co-Chair, Systems)

3 Faculty (Physics - Co-Chair, Math & Computer Science, & Chemistry/Biochemistry)

Ad Hoc Committee – TOR

“To develop criteria that can be used to help inform our collection development activities and decisions relating to

serially-published content … in scientific disciplines that are published or acquired in a continuing fashion.”

“As a demonstration/proof-of-concept of the criteria and process developed, the Committee shall produce and deliver a list of the “top 100 serial/journal titles” in the sciences that the Committee members agree should be received on a continuing basis by the

Mount Allison University Libraries.”

Ad Hoc Committee

ISI Journal Citation Reports

titles ranked highest cited by our professors

titles ranked highest in which our professors were cited

Sample conditions:unique last name

Mount Allison University address

Ad Hoc Committee

Results:range of journal titles used by faculty too vast for a Top 100 list (500+ titles)

60% of the faculty can find the journals they need at Mt. A

Gaps in Math, Computer Science, and Astrophysics

Chemistry and Biochemistry - 70% satisfied

Physics - 90% satisfied

Ad Hoc Committee

The title results list:290 – cited ≥10 times

43 titles not in e-formatMostly embargoes and backfiles

Can we get those titles?Some part of large & expensive aggregator packages

Others required expensive membership costs

Embargoes and Backfiles – Cost/use analysis + publication frequency

Most titles cheaper to ILL

Ad Hoc Committee – Top 100 List

Faculty survey – 2 Questions:What titles do you need for research?

What titles do you need for teaching?

Results – 206 TitlesAll unique to areas of research

13 titles not subscribed by Mt. A

26 titles – no embargo or backfile coverage

Elsevier

Converting Advances in …

High demand for Science Direct backfilesWe had many titles in print

Worked with Elsevier to get overlap – 500 shelves could be cleared with purchase of e-content

December 2013 – Elsevier visitsSigned 3 year contract for perpetual access to all backfiles

Start date January 1, 2014

Science Direct Packages we acquired:

Agricultural and Biological Sciences;Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Earth and Planetary Sciences; Engineering and Technology; High Energy/Nuclear Physics and Astronomy; Materials Science; Medicine and Dentistry; Neuroscience;Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics; Physical and Analytical Chemistry; Physics General; Psychology; Social Science; and 61 individual titles. 

Now…

All Serials overlap with Elsevier backfiles weeded

Reference Weeding project in progressSome weeded, some moved to new location – Basement Reference, Circulating

Summer 2014 – re-model Main Floor

Working with vendors:

sugar works better than vinegar

get your money’s worth

ask questions never assume

get them on speed dial

be prepared to share the work load

be pragmatic - flexible

Anne LePageBrian McNallyalepage@mta.cabmcnally@mta.ca

APLA Conference Moncton 2014

Step 1

APLA Conference Moncton 2014

Boxed up ready to go

APLA Conference Moncton 2014

Boxed for “BETTER WORLD BOOKS”

APLA Conference Moncton 2014

735 empties

APLA Conference Moncton 2014

Margie – made all the magic happen