THEME IV: New E-Resources Generate High Levels of Faculty Satisfaction

·  The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Journals
http://www.acm.org/dl/

"Professor David Arnow of CIS tells me he is very pleased with the ACM package." Susan Vaughn, Associate Librarian for Collection Development

This segment might be subtitled, "Faculty Satisfaction, or The Mess That Can Be Made." The Library had long received the print ACM journals as an "add on" to the Department of Computer and Information Service Department's ACM membership. Last year CIS canceled its membership in ACM (without notifying the Library) and large gaps began to appear in our journal runs. ACM was not interested in supplying us with the missing issues. (Even so, replacing them would have been costly.)

ACM e-journals to the rescue! After consulting with CIS chair Aaron Tenenbaum, we purchased the ACM Digital Library. It includes an archive, so that our missing issues problem has disappeared.

·  Jstor
http://www.jstor.org/
Jstor, the journal package most requested by Brooklyn College faculty, became a reality on February 1, 2001, thanks to the University's willingness to pay the $36,000 development fee for this growing digital archive of important core scholarly journals which are unavailable from any other source. The Brooklyn College Library must support the annual and on-going Jstor subscription price from its own budget. For this reason, we selected only the Arts and Humanities collection (117 titles; $4,000). While the development fee includes access to the Science titles as well, and faculty would like to have them, we cannot afford the annual subscription fee.

The Jstor project's goals include the following:

To build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature
To improve dramatically access to these journals
To help fill gaps in existing library collections of journal backfiles
To address preservation issues such as mutilated pages and long?term deterioration of paper copy
To reduce long?term capital and operating costs of libraries associated with the storage and care of journal collections
To assist scholarly associations and publishers in making the transition to electronic modes of publication
To study the impact of providing electronic access on the use of these scholarly materials

Apropos the last goal, libraries with substantial paper archives of Jstor journals report that the Jstor titles are used much more in e?form than they ever were in print; it is suggested that usage increases by a factor of 10.

·  Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
http://www.oed.com/
Readers in every discipline are delighted by the introduction of the OED Online, which contains the complete text of the OED's twenty?volume second edition, the three?volume Additions Series, as well as draft material from the current OED project (creating a revised and updated third edition).

·  Wiley InterScience
http://www.interscience.wiley.com/
New York State has struck a deal with Wiley InterScience for its electronic journals, one that is very beneficial to Brooklyn College. Presently we subscribe to 17 Wiley journals; under the new arrangement, we will gain e-access to 73 titles. This product will become available early in 2001.

·  AP Photo Archive
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
CUNY funding will make one new product available in 2000/2001, the AP Photo Archive. This product will eventually include sound, and it should be especially useful for the Theater and Journalism programs.