Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
In the late 1990s, university libraries in Germany and Austria found themselves having to cope with a resource which their staff had not been trained to deal with nor their patrons to use: e-serials
At two different university libraries, completely different approaches to managing scholarly e-serials were put into practice: Regensburg University Library, Germany and Graz University Library, Austria
They were developed independently, the principal idea was the same in both cases: to clearly indicate to what extent patrons might be able to make use of the full text of the electronic edition of a scholarly e-serial they were looking for, and at the same time to create a powerful tool for managing the Access and management platform for e-serials goes international Helmut Hartmann ever increasing flood of licences which librarians had to deal with
Summary
The University of Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany, provides an e-serials management and access service for more than 180 university and research libraries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and some other countries in Europe. The Electronic Journals Library (EZB) has become a powerful tool for both librarians and patrons. Speaking, the EZB is a database of approximately 11,000 titles entered into the system and maintained cooperatively, and the records for each of them can be specified according to the local licensing conditions of the individual libraries. Traffic light symbols indicate to the users whether access to the full text of a certain title is free, granted on the basis of a subscription, or denied, because a library does not subscribe to a journal. Article search has not been implemented yet, but may be made possible in the future
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