Because of several reasons, this year we canceled some package subscriptions and canceled some online titles with low usage statistics as well. Instead, we subscribe tokens in order to provide our patrons with online full texts upon their requests. Tokens can be used to all the journals published by this publisher we bought tokens from. But to manage this kind of subscription, I have some questions:
 
  1. Are there other libraries doing the same thing as we do?
  2. If you also subscribe tokens instead of titles, how do you treat these titles – as your subscribed titles listed in your Serials Solutions or do not list them at all?
  3. If you do not list the titles in your e-journals collection, how do you let your library users know they are part of your subscription which can be accessed by asking for?
  4. How do you manage the use of the tokens – not controlled by librarians at  all? Or be fully controlled by librarians of which department, ILL or Serials Dept?
 
You may send email to me directly to discuss it if you prefer. Thanks in advance.
 
 
Tian Zhang
 
Serials Department
St. John's University Library
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
Tel. 718 990-5082
Fax. 718 990-5938
Email: zhangt@stjohns.edu