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ESL Journals Data Toolkit

ESL Journals Data Toolkit

Publisher information

• Serials Acquitions/Publishers [http://libstaff.mit.edu/colserv/seracq/publish.html] - shows ownership changes, URLs for publishers
• SHERPA – ROMEO [http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php] - Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving
• Journal Cost-Effectiveness - [http://www.journalprices.com/] - finds internationally-published journals and rank them by price per article or citation
  

Orders & Licenses

• MIT Orders - Commitments database http://libstaff.mit.edu/colserv/seracq/dbases.html
  
• MIT Cancellations Projects
  
  • Elsevier, FY 2005: http://libraries.mit.edu/about/scholarly/elsevier.html <titles listed>
  • Wiley, FY 2005: http://libraries.mit.edu/about/journals/packages.html <no titles listed>
    
• Staff Vera [http://libraries.mit.edu/staffvera] - major licenses, packages, & statistics information.
  
• Major Journal Packages
  

MIT Use data

• Vera e-metrics statistics
  http://libstaff.mit.edu/colserv/digital/nerd/usage_stats.html
  
• Journal Use Studies
  • Journal Use Study 2003
  • Cost and Use Data for Kluwer, Springer, and Birkhauser Titles -- 8/6/04
    
• Web of Science - citation and author searching
  http://libraries.mit.edu/get/webofsci
  

Impact, quality, etc.

• JCR - impact factors
  http://libraries.mit.edu/get/jcr
  
• Citeseer - most-cited titles (CS)
  http://citeseer.csail.mit.edu/impact.html
  

General information

• SerAcq Serials statistics - pieces received, pieces claimed
  http://libstaff.mit.edu/colserv/seracq/statistics.html
  
• SerAcq Titles committed - by format and library
  http://libstaff.mit.edu/colserv/seracq/titlestats.html
  
• General Pricing Trends
  Ebsco - Serials Price Projections and Cost History
  
• People / assistance – collections services
  • http://libstaff.mit.edu/colserv/staff/s-blue.htm
  • http://libstaff.mit.edu/colserv/staff/s-yellow.htm
  • http://libstaff.mit.edu/colserv/maps/14e-210/
    
• CMG home page
  http://libstaff.mit.edu/cmg/index.html
  
• NERD home page
  http://libstaff.mit.edu/colserv/digital/nerd.html
  
• Collections services
  http://libstaff.mit.edu/colserv/

Communication examples

• Springer message to math faculty in 2005 (MMN)

Other libraries’ collections toolkits (not comprehensive)

• California Digital Library External Vendor Statistics -
  http://www.cdlib.org/inside/assess/external_vendor/index.html
• UC Berkeley 2004 Collections Budget Review: a New Access Model and a Budget Reduction Strategy -
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Staff/cbr/
• UCLA Cancellation Toolkit -
  http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/url/periodicals/CancellationToolkit.htm
• University of Washington Serials Review Toolkit -
  http://staffweb.lib.washington.edu/Cms/CancellationProject04/SerRev04.html
• University of Wisconsin-Madison's Journal Value Project -
  http://www.wendt.wisc.edu/projects/jvp/welcome.do

ESL Subjects

• Barker Engineering Library Subjects
  • Barker subjects in detail
• Science Library Subjects in detail

Last updated - 1/25/07 - EK