UMKC University Libraries

Serial Acquisitions Unit

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT/ACQUISITIONS ACTIVITY

• February 19, 2008 - Library decided to order the JAMA/Archives online package.  HSL print subscriptions are being cancelled. Dental will keep its two print subscriptions (JAMA and Archives of Dermatology).
• February 22, 2008 - The electronic journal, International Journal of Nursing and Education Scholarship was ordered for Sue Sykes Berry. Online access is provided through Serials Solutions.
• February 22, 2008 - Completed review of 58 journal titles requested by the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Design.  Noted titles already subscribed or for which we have current access via Serials Solutions.  Priced out the medium and high priority titles. 
• February 25, 2008 - Met with Swets representative, Norene Allen.  Discussion included updates to SwetsWise, including general licensing information for publishers.  Swets is moving into the e-book acquisitions management area and is offering the ability to manage e-book packages through them.  Will include ability to manage specific titles in the future.  Discussed ScholarlyStats service that is now owned by Swets. 

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

• February 21, 2008 - Ovid announces that BMJ is pulling content out of Ovid collections.  A la carte pricing will be available later this year.  Affected titles include:
  • BMJ Clinical Edition (Core Biomedical Collection)
  • Gut, Thorax (Biomedical II Collection)
• This month I requested the 2008 SpringerLINK title list to compare holdings against Serials Solutions.  The title list included 1,306 journal titles.  
• The Charleston Advisor is now freely available to all institutional members of the Center for Research Libraries.  Access was added to Serials Solutions.
• Three print indexes formerly published by Sage were purchased by EBSCO and are now available online through EBSCOhost:
  • Peace Research Abstracts
  • Sage Public Administration Abstracts (now Public Administration Abstracts)
  • Sage Urban Studies Abstracts (now Urban Studies Abstracts)

ERM TASK FORCE

• February 22, 2008 - Meeting to review vendor responses to questions. 
• The Task Force continues to work on developing recommendation for LDG. Focusing on Serials Solutions and Innovative ERM products.
• More information is available at: http://umkcerm.pbwiki.com/.

LIBRARIANS' COUNCIL

• February 27, 2008 - Participated in the annual promotion workshop. I covered the section on criteria for promotion for the individual ranks.

NASIG

• February 13, 2008 - Conference call between NASIG Proceedings Editors.  Worked on revising the editors manual.
• February 25, 2008 - NASIG initiated online voting for the first time in its history. Also unveiled a preview of its new website, using ArcStone.

SERIALS SOLUTIONS

•  February 15, 2008 - Serials Solutions announced that ProQuest had acquired WebFeat and was merging it into Serials Solutions.

SERIAL ACQUISITIONS UNIT ACTIVITY

•  February 20, 2008 - Met with new Head of Collections, Steve Alleman, for an orientation to serial acquisitions.

MARITZA NINO

• February 20, 2008 - Maritza Nino successfully reclassed to Library Specialist I.