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Journals Access at UEL
Problem:
The electronic access to journals at UEL is not sufficient within certain subject areas to meet the research and teaching needs of the institute for health and human development
Suggested Solution
Any solution along the lines of ‘subscribe to many more journals’ is neither particularly helpful nor appropriate. We need to prioritise what journals need to be instantly accessible and devise an efficient and cost effective way of accessing materials that are not in the library
Actions:
All staff within the IHHD need to suggest one or two journal or serial titles that the library does not currently subscribe to and that they feel is a priority for inclusion in the current subscription. If possible they can identify databases that might include this publication. In this way we might find a single database or publisher that will meet all online requirements. This should be done by 20th October. (All IHHD staff)
The Library needs to keep a record of ILL requests made by members of IHHD to both keep track of popular sources and to provide estimate of costs incurred (Sarah Castles, Glenn McPherson)
We need to decide on an approach to purchasing/procurement to allow online purchasing of articles if, as proves likely, this is far cheaper than ILL. (Adrian?)
Background: Access to journals and papers at UEL
I have had a number of problems accessing key articles for teaching or research in the fields of economics and public health. Journals that were readily accessible at Imperial through the library catalogue are not subscribed to at UEL. This may be because few staff do research or teaching in these fields and there may be a need to 'rebalance' the items to which UEL subscribes to more meet the needs of teachers and researchers in these subjects
A related problem is the UEL catalogues inability to locate journals that it does actually subscribe to
For example, The Journal of...
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