Friday, June 09, 2006

Record promises full text but delivers only abstracts

Question from RSC today ca. 3:30pm:

"Orbis says that the journal Economic and Industrial Democracy is available in full text from 11/2001 to one year ago. However, I couldn't find any FT at all."

I responded that I would look into it, and then I tried to replicate the problem as follows:

I retrieved the record, and noted that hyperlinked note in the public record says: "Available Online: Full text from 11/01/2001 to 1 year ago (ABI/INFORM Global)". When I click on the link I get a ProQuest-supplied index of journal issues. When I click on the latest issue, "May 1, 2006", I get a table of contents for that issue, with article titles hyperlinked. If I click on a specific title, say "From Welfare to Profit", I get an abstract. That's the end of the road. No full text.

There's a Yale Links button available at the article level, so I tried it and received the message: "Yale Links could not find full text. Try the options below to do a comprehensive search for this item." I tried searching the list of electronic journals, but no luck there either.

So ... it looks like record should be revised to indicate that the Yale Library provides online abstracts, but not full text. Alternatively, maybe we really do have the full text, but I it isn't easy to find (by SFX or by me).

I can't update the record myself, since the 946 field says "DO NOT EDIT; DO NOT EXPORT"

I've sent a note to Matthew and Youn to see if there's anything they can do.

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