[ILL-L] Embargo and fill rates

[Joseph Wickens]

All Serhold records require date/volume ranges and requests are auto-routed
on the basis of this information. As a result requests are routed properly
as to matching the start date of the holdings but reflecting the embargo
period is still not an option.  I wonder if NLM could introduce an
acquisitions code for 12, 18 and 24 month embargo periods that could be
added to the Serhold record and would effectively deflect requests for
content falling within the chosen range?

Joe Wickens

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Denise L Montgomery
<dmontgom at valdosta.edu>wrote:

>
> 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
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> >
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