SIGALO

Serials Interest Group for Academic Libraries in Oklahoma

November 2, 2001

OSU-OKC Student Center, Conference Room South

Oklahoma City, OK

Marla Roberson, Assistant Director, Technical Services Librarian, welcomed the group.  She then introduced Junie Janzen, Oklahoma Baptist University, who gave a presentation on JAKE, Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment.

JAKE is a free, open system that began at Yale in 1984.  It was first called Cracker Jake.  It contains around 25,000 journals consisting mainly of medical and hard sciences titles.  JAKE likes to spread the work and is happy for volunteers to contribute their time.  You can find more information at http://jake-db.org.  Lists from various aggregator vendors are loaded, with most of the Oklahoma EBSCOhost databases entered.

Jake does offer a database comparison form with provides a list from both databases and a third list showing the overlap between the two.  Graphs are available, however, only titles with ISSNs are used in the comparison.  Also, the form does not give a full-text availability comparison.  A JAKE listserv is available.

Some of the sites using JAKE are:

http://www.calvin.edu/library 

The business meeting was chaired by Dana Belcher, East Central University.  There will be two openings on the program team in April.  A reminder was given to attend the Oklahoma Union List of Serials membership meeting on December 4, 2001.  NASIG training was brought up, but SIGALO does not have funds to pay for this type of training.  Langston University volunteered to host the April 2002 meeting.

Audrey DeFrank, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, gave the afternoon presentation on "Serials Solution & Other Commercial Serials Management Tools."  SWOSU looked at three vendors, TDNet, Journal Webcite, and Serials Solutions.

TDNet is based out of Tel Aviv. They were hard to contact.  Their minimum fee was $5000, and they had access to only 20,000 titles.  NELINET recently signed with them.

Journal Webcite, based out of Philadelphia, had an extensive list of vendors with about 33,000 journal titles indexed.  Of the three, Journal Webcite had the best statistics and reporting capabilities.  They had real time updates and a flexible report format.  The costs ranged from $900-$6000 based on FTE.

Serials Solutions, picked by SWOSU, is used at OSU-Tulsa, The New York Public Library, and The Library of Congress.  Serials Solutions was founded by Peter McCraken (see August 2001 issue of Library Journal).  It has access to all aggregators and publishers' websites.  No direct URLs are available, and no statistics/reports or searching are available at this time.  Direct IP is available (even if the publisher requires an authorization/password), and it is easy to setup.  Costs are based on the amount of databases requested, not FTE.  SWOSU's cost to track approximately 9000 titles was around $1500.  Journal titles are updated monthly, and print/microform titles can be added as well.  Direct links to library catalog records are available.  Audrey says Serials Solutions is simple, sweet, and short.

The group dismissed to tour the OSU-OKC Library.

ATTENDEES

Dana Belcher, ECU

Marla Roberson, OSU-OKC

Kristin B. Sawyer, OUHSC, Family Medical

Katherin Wong, OU

Starla Doescher, OU

Mary Hardin, ODL

Ila Coffman, OU

Audrey Gastineau, AHEC

Amanda Hall, AHEC

Danielle Cain, OU

Cheryl McCain, OU

Sandra Thomas, SOSU

Freda Chen, ODL

Mary Whitley, SSC

Carole Sites-Walker, UCO

Carol Ihrig, UCO

Anita Semtner, SGU

Joy Pauley, SNU

Peggy Clark, SNU

Junie Janzen, OBU

Collen Ward, OUHSC

Nancy Jurney, Langston

Barbara Bradley, OSU

S. Michael Kim, OSU

Michele Seikel, OSU

Shelly Clement, OU-Law

Beverly Dowdy, OUHSC

Ken Thery, Mid America Bible College

Jan Ferris, RSU

Carolyn Gutieriz, RSU

Ron Curtis, UCO

Janet Hughes, OSU-Medical

Yolonda Sampson, OU-Tulsa

Susan Hutchins, OSU-OKC

Audrey DeFrank, SWOSU

Nancy Sprehe, Noble Foundation

Judy Wilkerson, OUHSC