1. Can’t I Just Get This Online Somewhere? User issues with electronic journals Sarah Beasley Portland State Univeristy Library

2. The Dream

6. What users assume

7. What our users assume Famous article from Atlantic Monthly in 1945: “As We May Think” by Vannevar Bush Shouldn’t that be available full text online?

8. Google!

9. First hit! I’m such a good web searcher.

10. Google

11. A great article about ERIC in the 21 st century in some kind of ed policy journal …

12. Google

16. Plethora of interfaces, vendors, formats

17. Sometimes for the same title….

18. PNAS via JSTOR

19. PNAS via PNAS

20. Server is down

21. Coverage issues

23. Disparity of coverage issues

24. Comprehensiveness of content issues Incomplete content – article appearing in the paper included a side bar with recipes from the bakery described.

25. Impact from the Tasini decision The United States Supreme Court (in Tasini v. NYT) ruled that print publishers such as newspapers and magazines may not use material in online databases to which they had previously obtained only print rights from independent contractor creators. The Court’s ruling establishes that such online and electronic uses are separate uses from that of print.

26. Format of the content

27. Format Issues PDF, TIFF Plug-ins required Learning curve and training issues related to additional applications

28. There’s PDF and then there’s PDF Sometimes PDF is not a page image, but simply word-processed text

29. Graphics and Tables… To print tables at full size, each must be enlarged, individually…..

30. Generation Gap PDF created from scanning print copies – one generation away from original printing. Can be quality issues -- alignment

31. Generation Gap Quality of print reproduction can be poor

32. Generation Gap Resizing the text for better viewing now requires user to scroll horizontally….

33. Infrastructure Issues

34. Remote authentication Speed of network connections Size of pdf files – What happens when you cancel and the publisher provides you with your archival material? What format? What will you have to do to support it?

35. Pricing

36. Could spend a whole day on these issues alone, but from users: perspective: Why don’t you have more? Options for pay per view

37. Pay per view Wilson –

38. Pay per view PsycINFO

39. Problems with the medium itself

40. User acceptance Learning curve Citation Issues

41. In text citations – how?

42. More questions Published online – estimated scholarly value? Peer reviewed? Identified via the discipline’s I & A databases?

43. Link Rot Rumsey, M. (2002) “Runaway Train: Problems of Permanence, Accessibility, and Stability in the Use of Web Sources in Law Review Citations” Law Library Journal, 94, 27-39. www.aallnet.org/products/2002-02.pdf

44. Rumsey article More articles cite web every year. More web cites are cited 62% of links in articles published in 2001 were working in May-June 2001 30% of links in articles published in 1997 were working in May-June 2001