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Electronic
Journals
Two objectives have been achieved:
1. Integrate full-image/full-text journal articles with the library's
catalog
2. Seamless integration of electronic journal articles with our
bibliographic databases such as SciSearch® at LANL, INSPEC, BIOSIS, Engineering
Index.
The Research Library has collaborated with several publishers
to provide electronic journals to the desktop in PDF format. A list
of electronic journal titles organized by publisher is available.
As of 2/99 over 1,233 full-text, full-image journal titles
are available for authorized users through network connections.
To facilitate access to electronic journals, multiple access points
are provided. Links are available from the Research Library's online
catalog, electronic journals web page, all journals web page, and
subject oriented web pages. Maintaining all of these links separately
proved to be very time-consuming. The electronic journals team proposed
creating all electronic journal web pages from information in the
online catalog. This went into production March 3, 1997. The URLs
for electronic journals are contained within the online catalog
records. This information is extracted and scripted to form web
pages. The electronic journals page provides a search mechanism,
an alphabetic listing and subject listings. (For more information
see Knudson, Frances L. et al. Creating
electronic journal web pages from OPAC records, Issues in Science
& Technology Librarianship, Number 15, Summer 1997.)
The integration of article level links has also been achieved.
Article level links are available in all LWW bibliographic databases.
Currently there are two models of linking. SICIs (Serial Item and
Contribution Identifier) are used to link locally stored PDFs from
publishers such as Elsevier Science, Academic Press, and Kluwer.
The second method requires linking to external sites such as HighWire
Press, American Physical Society, IEEE, and Springer. The key is
persistent URLs. Linking requires that each publisher's scheme for
generating URLs be accommodated.
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