I am slowly bringing my little medical library up to the 2oth century. In one year I have gotten my library collection into an online catalog, activated access or added links to over 200 online journals, and beefed up my library's anemic intranet page. Everybody talks about Library 2.0 and I feel like I am still beta testing Library 1.0. I still have a long way to go to get the library up to my standards, but you have to learn how to walk before you can run.

Right now I am in the process of evaluating link resolvers. I am looking at Ebsco and Serials Solutions. I admit I am a little biased towards Serials Solutions. I fell in love with Serials Solutions as I used extensively at my previous library to help us make sense of the gazillion OhioLINK e-journals available to us.

However, right now I am favoring Ebsco a little bit because they allow you to use the full product during the trial period. I am learning about a lot of things in Ebsco's LinkSource. Unfortunately Serials Solutions, does not allow you to use the full product during the trial period (a serious sales tactic flaw, I might add). It has been over a year since I last touched Serials Solutions. How do I can accurately compare the two products when one product is not the "full" version? I recently took a webinar class to learn more about the product and I discovered a lot of features that I found to be interesting. I also thought some features were cumbersome compared to my experience with Serials Solutions. But of course since Serials Solutions does not give you a full functioning product to play with, how am I to know if my rapidly deteriorating year old knowledge is still good?

Price is not going to be much of a determining factor because there is only $1000 difference between the two products. I am curious to hear from librarians who have used both products, what product they prefer.