[Eril-l] link checking best practices

[Theresa Borchert]

I would be interested in how others are doing journal link checking using WMS.

We currently do journal link checking for individual subscribed content to the article level. Our serials coordinator and/or student worker spot check our eholdings from the first date we should have access to the present (or the latest date we should have access). They work on this using a computer that emulates off-campus access.

We generally do this once a year about April (after our big vendor order has been completed and subscriptions have started for the new year's content cycle).

Notes:

  *   Sometimes with WMS the publisher link is not the first link in WorldCat Discovery.
  *   Students need to know the difference between direct publisher access and leased platform access.
  *   Clicking down to the article level will create a usage statistics.
  *   Using the computer that emulates off-campus (proxy) access does not guarantee that this will work from off-campus. So, checking the URL at the article level for the 'proxy chuck' is important. If it is missing we need to check this again from off-campus.
  *   We currently generate a list of owned content titles from publishers with date ranges and publisher platforms from our ERM which is separate from WMS. I would like to be able to do this using WMS.

WMS wish list.

  *   Ability to generate a list from WMS of owned journal content to a spreadsheet. This would allow people doing the checking to pass on the the next student titles already checked and ultimately to the person who can fix the problems. Currently you would have to go to each collection with owned content and download a KBART file. You would still have to know which collections you have turned on and which collections include the titles you need to check.
  *   Ability to download the list of owned collection from Collection Manager. For example: When I do a * search for owned Collections in Collection Manager I would like to download content listed from the results. Each year I create a new sheet in  spreadsheet with this information so I can check changes in content over time, correct duplicate collections, cross-check yearly content changes and compare statistics. It's interesting to see how much leased aggregate content changes each year. How we have increased in Open Access content, etc... And has allowed me to check if multiple collections are turned on for the same publisher.

Theresa Borchert, Electronic Resources Librarian
Concordia College
Moorhead, MN


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Subject: [Eril-l] link checking best practices


Hello,


I am developing procedures for link checking e-journals, both individually subscribed titles and links within aggregators. We would like to have our student workers do this for us on a regular basis.


If you do link checking of your e-journals, how often do the student workers / staff do this?


Do any of you have guidelines / best practices that you can share?


Thank you.


Beth



Beth M. Johns, MLIS

E-Resources Librarian

Saginaw Valley State University

Melvin J. Zahnow Library

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