Highline is.

Was just about to ask that, Kirsti! Should we do all or just physical?

That's my question too. We purchase lots of EBSCO eBooks. The CZ records are often crap.

How do you process physical titles that include electronic access? e.g. Salem Press

We use OCLC WorldCat bibs for ebooks that we buy from EBSCO aand Proquest

Cara Beth: We have separate bibs for the print book and the ebook.

@CB- we do separate bibs for electronic and physical books from Salem

Olympic is interested but we are trying to more fully understand the scope.

Cara Beth, do you have the recording from that webinar? That's what we've been trying to track down to better understand the scope, vs reclamation project.

That's ok, we had a staff member who attended so if they send it out we'll get it that way.

Regarding overlap analysis of electronic titles . . . What would one do with this information? The only thing I can think of is to NOT make print purchases if electronic titles are already owned.

I think also to decide if we'll subscribe to new collections of databases?

@Lynn: Like you note, overlap analysis is really helpful for purchasing decisions. You can use it to decide if a new database gives you enough unique titles to be worth the cost. You can also use it to figure out whether cutting a database would cut access to unique content that's essential for specific programs.

Thank you!!

A lot of our "collections" that show up there are leftover from the old "EBSCO alternative coverage" situation, but I haven't cleaned them up. I would really only be doing a comparison to our actual subscribed collections.

We've used Microsoft Access for overlap analysis before. After you've done it once, it's pretty easy. You import 2 Excel files, and then you can use a canned report in MS Access to tell you whats in FIle 1 that's not in File 2 and vice versa. But I do agree with Amy about how anooying it is that Serials Solutions had an easy-to-use overlap tool already and Ex Libris doesn't seem to have kept that tool around for customers.

"annoying"

Kirsti does your Access method also account for full and partial overlap due to full text coverage dates? Serials Solutions would compare not only ISSNs but also the actual coverage dates.

It doesn't. We've only used it for really simple comparisons.

Isn't "Cereal Chemistry" what Clark Griswold does? LOL

I just need to finally make my peace with losing Serials Solutions ha ha

Good try, Wade!

Middle Aged Woman doesn't like it when things that work go away! (Talking about myself.) ;)

Thank you all and until next week . . .