Monday, January 29, 2007

Errors in Serials Solutions and SFX

A reference question asking about online access to 1995 issues of the journal Research in Higher Education revealed an error in Serials Solutions about how far back our access actually goes. Here are the results for a Serials Solutions search for Research in Higher Education:
  • from 03/01/1973 to present in MetaPress Complete
  • from 01/01/1997 to present in SpringerLink Contemporary (1997 - Present)
  • from 02/01/1997 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier
The entry for MetaPress complete is actually wrong, as our access begins with the 1997 issues.
I'm posting this message here not so everyone can remember this specific error but to point out that you sometimes have to follow the links in Serial Solutions search results to the journal page in each database to verify access.

For the sake of comparison, it's worth noting here the results that from SFX. Using the Citation Linker tool from SFX, I got the following results for a search for online access to Research in Higher Education:
  • EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier. Available from 1997. Most recent 1 year(s) not available
  • Springer Standard Collection. Available from 1997

No mention in SFX for MetaPress Complete, although it does indeed give you access to issues from 1997 on.

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