——– Original Message ——– Dear LOCKSS Alliance participant, CLOCKSS and CrossRef have implemented the means to track articles from discontinued journals using the CrossRef DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) originally assigned to the articles. When a published journal or other content is no longer available from a publisher, an archive that stores that content experiences a […]
Category: CERM Information
OpenURL Linking
CERM has changed the OpenURL linking for the majority of the electronic resources to Serials Solutions. There is a very long tail on this project but we estimate that 90% of the resources have been moved. If you run across an electronic resource that is still linking to an SFX screen, please drop a note […]
Linking to articles, etc
Early next week, CERM will change the software that we use to support our Open URL linking to Serials Solutions 360Link from ExLibris’ SFX. Although we will try to move to the new software as quickly as possible, there will be a period of time when the linking pages will not be consistent. Sometimes one […]
P-Card & PayPal Revisited
As we recently reported, the rules and restrictions regarding the use of the Purchasing Card (P-Card) have changed. The use of PayPal to acquire material is forbidden. When we process a request and find that the only option available to us is to use PayPal, we will try to identify another source for the item. […]
P-Card & PayPal
The rules & restrictions regarding the use of the Purchasing Card (P-Card) have changed. It is no longer possible for us to use the P-Card to purchase material through PayPal. We are working with the folks over in Purchasing to figure out how to acquire material available only via PayPal. […]
Individual Fund Balances
My workstation has been upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007. I am having a few technical issues working with WCM. At the moment, I am not able to post spreadsheets to the INFORMATION FOR SELECTORS web page. Please bear with us as we work through the technical problems. I will post the spreadsheets on the SHARED […]
A-Z list
CERM is experimenting with the Serials Solutions A-Z list for electronic resources. It’s possible for us to include electronic books as well as e-journals and databases. The links to the material aren’t activated but it seems to be easy to navigate. The Serials Solutions A-Z list also allows us to add notes to individual e-journals […]
CERM Activities
The folks in CERM are working on a number of activities that are essential to Libraries operations but invisible to those outside CERM. Continuing Resources is reviewing the renewal lists that come from the various vendors. At the same time, Alan & Chris are canceling subscriptions or switching print to online at the request of […]
Cancellations for 2009
This is just a reminder note to selectors that there is a spreadsheet for 2009 subscription cancellations in the Shared Directory under: SHARED==> TSAD 0809 ==>CANCELLATIONS FOR 2009 Please record your decisions to cancel a current subscription on that spreadsheet. Please enter data into the correct column. Please provide the information requested. It speeds the […]
360 Resource Manager Training
CERM will be offering training sessions on our new Electronic Resource Management software from Serials Solutions. This ERM is called 360 Resource Manager and replaces Meridian. Meridian will be retired by the end of the calendar year. CERM staff have been busy entering data into 360 Resource Manager over the summer. The ERM will provide […]