Dear Mr. Miller,
Thank you for your contribution to this discussion; it is greatly appreciated. I believe we all look gratefully to Art Full Text for the material you have made available to us. My reference to the obvious and notable exceptions to the paucity of full text was a direct reference to the work of Wilson on this issue and to Art Fulltext. I should have made a direct reference to Art Full Text. My comments were directed at both colleagues and vendors to encourage a dialogue on this pressing issue, as well as a Task Force to make it happen.
I am both a Collections librarian and the Art/Architecture/Drama librarian here at UVA. The libraries here are able to offer most disciplines, except the arts, a myriad of choices and almost every journal in full text. Our lack of representation with aggregate vendors outside of Art Full Text and Project Muse is glaring and becoming harder to defend in both collections allocations and with patrons.
I do believe that Wilson should be part of this discussion as our first and most helpful partner in the quest for full text access. At present, I am not sure of conversations at ALA, it may be too close to the time, but I do intend to invite all three of you, Wilson, CSA, and EBSCO to the Academic Libraries Division meeting or the Collections Discussion Group at ARLIS Atlanta. Could I forward our conversation here to the list?
Dear Ms Stylianopoulus,
As Director of Product Management at The H.W. Wilson Company, and a former librarian myself, I have read with interest this current discussion of the relative paucity of full text titles available to the art community through aggregated databases. I am puzzled by the absence of our Art Full Text database from this discussion. I would hope to let you all know that Art Full Text, from HW Wilson, provides the full text of articles from 166 journals going as far back as 1997. All have HTML full text and 113 are also accompanied by PDF page images.
I am writing to you privately because I do not want to appear to intrude on your space with a marketing pitch. I do respect the privilege of observing your conversation. However, if you feel it would be helpful information to add to the mix of this discussion, please make the information available to all of your listserv members. I would also like to make myself available to you all for the same sort of talks that you propose to hold with CSA and EBSCO at ALA Midwinter. I will be in Seattle and hope that we will have the chance to talk.
Sincerely,
Ron
Ron Miller MLIS
Director of Product Management
The H.W. Wilson Company
950 University Ave.
Bronx, NY 10452
718-588-8400 ext. 2743
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Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Full textJournals
Nina et Al.,
This is great news and thanks to everyone who has sent in these
excellent comments. I have not yet had time to compile the most
recent additions to our list of issues but they are fascinating.
Lets form this into a "task force" to continue working on the topic
with an eye to leveraging Nina's access point. I have had some
contact with CSA regarding this idea, so I think that talks with both
EBSCO and CSA right now at ALA Seattle and before ARLIS Atlanta might
be fruitful.
To all who were interested, I will keep and forward the emails to a
new list serve that Rijn Templeton will be announcing soon for the
Academic Libraries Division. That way we can firm up our own needs
and have a proposal ready to work on in Atlanta. I think this might
be a main agenda item with both the Academic Library Division and the
Collections discussion Group. I will work with the Atlanta
conference team to get us some meeting space.
Who might be going to Seattle that is interested in this topic?
Please let me know.
thanks to all,
lucie
Chair, Academic Libraries Division
On Nov 30, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Nina Stephenson wrote:
Our Collection Development officer has told me that our Ebsco
representative has asked for suggestions of full-text titles they
should
try to add to their databases. She has suggested that if I come up
with
a list of the top 2 dozen titles art titles, perhaps they might
work on
some. So... what full-text titles would be on your most-wanted list?
Include title, publisher and maybe a few words on why the title is so
vital.
Nina
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Nina Stephenson
Fine Arts Library MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
505-277-0679
Nina Stephenson 11/30/2006 2:57 PM >>>
I don't know if these discussions about art journals are taking place
on more general library discussion lists, but the art librarians ARLIS
list has recently had messages posted about the dearth of full text
journals in the arts...
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:03:21 -0500
Reply-To: Lucie Stylianopoulos
Sender: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST
From: Lucie Stylianopoulos
Subject: Full text Journals
Dear Colleagues,
I know that particularly in Academic Libraries we are always
pressured to find Full-text journal articles. Often, the packages
that our libraries purchase contain few, if any important full text
journals in the Arts (with obvious and notable exceptions). Thus,
Fine Arts Libraries are left behind in the online library environment
and often overlooked in funding initiatives.
After listening to a discussion of the new CSA Illustrata product
which will make available scientific images in full text journals, I
wondered if an opportunity has come to leverage more full text
availability for Arts journals. At least four major Art and
Architecture databases (Avery, BHA, DAAI, and ArtBibModern) are
currently available through CSA Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Will
CSA also be making images in art and architecture journals available
through CSA Illustrata? I think it would be a good time to talk
about this.
I would like to see ARLIS form a Task Force to leverage more online
access in our field. Perhaps we could also collaborate with our
colleagues in ACRL-ARTS and VRA to present a stronger presence. I
would hope that we could meet with our colleagues in the Avery and
BHA User Groups in Atlanta to start the ball rolling.
Would anyone else be interested in such a group/task force? Is this
something the Board would find useful?
thanks,
lucie
Chair, Academic Library Division
Lucie Wall Stylianopoulos
Acting Head, Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library
Collections & Instruction Librarian
Librarian for Art/Archaeology, Architecture and Drama
University of Virginia
Bayly Drive Box 400131
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4131
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