[Eril-l] Question: when is a journal "Full Text"

[Eric Elmore]

That is unfortunately a side effect of the multiple possible interpretations and implementations of the openurl linking standards.  Every publisher reads the standards and instructions on how to implement them, then through their particular corporate lens does their best to implement them.  Some are better at it than others, some – in this case Ebsco, really don’t try very hard. Gale has actually gotten better over the last few years, and even Lexis has kinda tried.

Do we have time to try to fix all the miscues? No, not really – but we do catch as many as we can and submit support tickets to our linkresolver vendor to get them fixed.  Most of the time we submit them and they get transferred to the “metadata team” at our vendor and we never really know if they get fixed or not.  We did as much as we could by reporting on the errors, if our vendor follows through that would be a bonus.

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From: Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] On Behalf Of Mary Beeker
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 9:04 AM
To: eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
Subject: [Eril-l] Question: when is a journal "Full Text"

I recently had several questions about "full text holdings" from our staff.

Forgive my ignorance, but is there a good explanation when someone notices that Gale's Nursing Resource Center shows up in EBSCO Full Text Finder as having Science full text, but in reality it just has abstracts?

Do ER librarians from larger institutions have the time/knowledge to modify holdings statements to avoid confusion?

Thanks for any help!
- Mary

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Mary Beeker
Northwestern Michigan College - Osterlin Library
mbeeker at nmc.edu<mailto:mbeeker at nmc.edu>
(231) 995-1015
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