Swets Launches SwetsWise Linker, will be an OpenURL link resolver providing access to 9,000 e-journals and 500 e-journal aggregators and secondary databases. This little bit of news was just released September 28, 2004 on Swets site.

I would think this would work in conjunction with Swets new product called SwetsWise Title Bank. From what I can tell SwetsWise Title Bank is similar to Serials Solutions A to Z list.

This could be very interesting for us and other libraries who use Swets as their journal vendor. My question is how seamless will our holdings display in their products. I don't know about you but I still think Swets and other journal vendors are seriously behind the curve when it comes to electronic subscriptions. I am constantly noticing errors regarding ejournals. Also interesting is how Swets would handle large consortias. We are an OhioLINK library and we had major problems regarding Ovid's woeful handling of OhioLINK EJC articles and full text journals via other databases in their OpenURL resolver. Swets to woo us it would have to have a very very seamless transition from our ejournal holdings to their two products. Their two products Title Bank and Linker would have to be able to accomodate all of OhioLINK's full text electronic articles (EJC, Ebsco full text journals, Lexis Nexis, etc.) with minimal up keep on our end. I do not want to be told that I have to do EJC loads. I do not want to be told that I have manually imput all of the embargo dates. When you are talking about access to over 16,000 journal titles it has to be user friendly to us.

Currently we have Serials Solutions Article Linker and Serials Solutions A to Z List. So far we are extremely pleased with their products. So far it is minimal up keep and and very reliable. I also have found their customer service to be the best in database providers and in electronic journals.