[ILL-L] Embargo and fill rates

[Denise L Montgomery]

The trouble of it is, when you are requesting from an electronic 
serials record--and this is my complaint about electronic serials 
records--is that they list NOTHING in the way of holdings years for any 
institution: not the beginning date, not the end, nothing!
It makes it extremely frustrating, because you know that most holdings 
prior to the mid 90s aren't going to be available electronically, and 
many libraries are going to have the last year embargoed, but you don't 
know this. You just request blindly, and hope for the best, or use some 
common sense, and hope that someone on the dwindling number of 
libraries listed on the print serials records which list beginning or 
ending serials dates are able to supply what you need.

Anyone know why electronics serials records don't list dates of 
holdings? 

                                Denise Montgomery
                                Valdosta State University Library

aslill, aslill (EED sponsored) wrote:


>Is it possible to make the holdings read something like "1985- (1 yr 
embargo)". I do look at holdings when I request journal articles, and 
this would tell me not to request recent articles. I know not everybody 
looks at the holdings when they do their requests, but for those who 
do, it would increase ou efficiency as borrowers, as well.
> 
>Becky Orford
> 
>Interlibrary Loan  
>Alaska State Library
>P. O. Box 110571  
>Juneau, AK  99811-0571
> 
>e-mail: aslill at alaska.gov
>
>http://library.state.ak.us
>
>________________________________
>
>From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Heather L Brown
>Sent: Tue 7/7/2009 12:59 PM
>To: ill-l at webjunction.org
>Subject: [ILL-L] Embargo and fill rates
>
>
>Apologies if this has been covered before. I'm not quite sure how to 
search the archives.
>
>A number of years ago, all of our ejournals were added to Serhold/OCLC 
so that they could be lent to other libraries (license dependent, of 
course).  There are about 500 titles that have embargos and there is no 
easy way to handle this in holdings statements except put the range 
available at that point in time and update when you see fit or delete 
these titles all together.  Otherwise, you get hit with requests you 
can't fill and cancel for licensing reasons.  This is what we do now 
and our fill rate looks awful.  Has anyone else found a solution other 
than what I've mentioned here or have any thoughts on these worsening 
fill rates?
>
>Thanks!
>Heather
>
>
>
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>Heather L. Brown, M.A.
>Assistant Professor
>Head of Access Services
>-Interlibrary Loan and Photocopy Department
>-Distance Education
>-The Nebraska Medical Center Liaison
>
>McGoogan Library of Medicine
>University of Nebraska Medical Center
>986705 Nebraska Medical Center
>Omaha, NE 68198-6705
>
>hlbrown at unmc.edu
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