[Genealib] Genealogical periodical usage

[Jane Lucas]

To tell you the truth I'm really not sure how it works from the vendors end
like Ebsco, but I assume that most publications exist in a digital format at
the publishers end and that is what would be sent to the database vendor for
indexing in their database.   Then depending on the arrangement with the
vendor the information or article is available to the patron in either
citation format or fulltext format.

What I don't know is the financial arrangements that the publisher makes
with the vendor, but there are thousands and thousands of publications
fulltext indexed in these databases and all those many publishers must see
some advantage to it.

Then there are retrospective databases like JSTOR and so on.   I'm hoping
that in the future more genealogical publications will be available.

Jane



On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:30 AM, M. Diane Rogers <diane_rogers at shaw.ca>wrote:

> Related questions/comments - since you asked...
>
> I'm the Editor of a genealogical society journal "The British Columbia
> [Canada] Genealogist" and am indexing the issues for our last 5 years
> (subject/author/genealogical surnames).  We have a 'Table of Contents' index
> already on our website.  (Then we will work back through the other years.)
>
> Which kind of indexes would be most useful to librarians/patrons? And in
> what formats? We might put these indexes on our website and publish as a
> .pdf for our members. I was thinking a paper version would be more
> appreciated by librarians?
>
> I don't know that the 'major databases' are that interested in society
> journals, but the Canadian Periodical Index (Gale) includes "Families", the
> OGS journal. My experience is that few genealogists here use these
> databases, unless they are researching in academic libraries. (I am not a
> librarian though, I hasten to add.) OGS also sells an index on paper and CD.
>
> And I know our journal is one of our society's main membership benefits and
> we need members and membership fees to survive. We do sell back issues and
> we do lookups or copy articles for a small fee. I was thinking soon we might
> offer articles using a service like lulu.com. I don't think we'd want to
> hand that over to a big commercial company, at least not yet.
>
> Many of our members do read other genealogical/historical journals
> regularly.  Our library volunteers comb through journals every quarter for
> interesting articles and we publish lists of their favourites in our
> journal.
>
> Any ideas will be appreciated.
>
> M. Diane Rogers
> British Columbia, Canada
> British Columbia Genealogical Society: www.bcgs.ca
>
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