TOWARD AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ARTICLE DELIVERY SERVICE

II. JOURNAL CITATION SEARCHING IN THE SUS

The first step in obtaining journal articles is to perform one or more searches in one or more sources of citations to the journal literature. The libraries have literally hundreds of print indexes and dozens of citation databases on CD-ROM disks attach ed to PCs located in public areas of the libraries. SUS students and faculty also have online access to several databases of journal article citations on LUIS. These databases cover journal articles in many of the titles held by the SUS libraries to su pport a wide-spectrum of undergraduate and graduate education. The LUIS system, which is supported by FCLA and runs at NERDC, has the following:

Education Resources Information Clearinghouse (ERIC) - indexes the journal and report literature in Education.

Expanded Academic Index (EAI) - covers 1,500 journals in the humanities, social sciences and basic sciences.

Business Index (BI) - covers 800 journals at the undergraduate level in business.

Applied Science & Technology Index (ASTI) - covers 375 journals.

Biological and Agricultural Index (BAI) - covers 240 journals.

Except for ERIC, which is created by federal funds and costs a nominal $1,800 per year, the above citation databases are created as proprietary products by commercial firms. These firms then license their databases to libraries. Currently the SUS libra ries are splitting the cost of the data licenses and paying for them with Book OCO. For all the databases, the costs are divided based on FTE student enrollment. The total SUS costs are as follows:

EAI--------$105,000 per year
BI--------$ 55,000 per year
ASTI------$ 32,000 per year
BAI-------$ 36,000 per year

Some libraries also have ERIC and ASTI on CD-ROM because the CD-ROM product has search and print capabilities beyond those currently available in the LUIS system. Many of the CD-ROM products in the libraries support programs unique to an institution or are only available in the CD-ROM medium at this time.

The mix of mainframe, CD-ROM (either standalone or networked), online, and paper indexes currently in the libraries will sort itself out based on need--libraries will continue to have literally dozens of additional citation databases to provide access to the literature. The academic program mix at each institution will guarantee a continuing local need that will not be practical to meet at the SUS level. The plan's emphasis is to license general citation databases and mount them on the mainframe to vas tly improve access for thousands of lower and upper division undergraduates to the core liberal arts and sciences journals for the SUS baccalaureate program. The basis for selection should be that most of the SUS libraries can provide access to most of t he literature cited in the mainframe databases.