STRATEGIC PROGRAM FOR THE EDUCATION AND THE INITIAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
PROJECT:
Linking of Greek Academic Libraries
Action 3:
RATIONALISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIES’
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS COLLECTIONS
CONSPECTUS APPLICATION
GUIDELINES No 8
LIST CHECKING
Steps to follow in list checking:
1. For the assessment of current collections, list checking must be done according to
the checklists developed for the needs of the project. The lists with recommended
titles in each discipline or subject area are mainly based on the ISI Journal
Citation index (impact factor). Additionally, the resources below were also
included in developing the final collective Check-Lists for use in the attribution of
Current Collection Level (CL):
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Katz, Bill and Linda Sternberg-Katz. Magazines for Libraries. New
Providence, R.R. Bowker, 1997 and 1992.
Malinowsky, Robert H. Reference Sources in Science, Engineering,
Medicine, and Agriculture. Phoenix, Ariz., Oryx Press, 1994.
Recommendation lists issued by scientific institutions or organizations.
This is the case of the American Chemical Association and the Canadian
Chemical Association that issues lists of recommended titles in Chemistry.
The library of any institution offering education programs in Chemistry must
hold these titles. Otherwise, the program is not accredited. (Titles mentioned
in these recommendation lists have been included in the collective Check-List
for Chemistry.)
Lists of relevant scientific societies. These lists were mainly created in order
to cover titles of periodicals published by scientific societies in several parts of
the world, but not indexed by ISI, or Katz, or Malinowsky. These lists do not
include journal titles but names of Associations. Therefore, they make a
separate Appendix, attached to the collective Checklists of some disciplines.
By creating these lists, an effort was made not to focus only on U.S.
publications (heavily represented among ISI, Katz and Malinowsky’s entries)
and to give an emphasis in the European nature of our libraries.
2. Current Collection Level (CL) depth indicators will be attributed after estimating
the percentage of titles held in each Conspectus Category or Subject according to
Guidelines No 7. When the assessment is being done at a Subject level, list
checking should be restricted to the specific number of titles included in the range
of relevant LC Call Numbers of the Check List within a Conspectus Category.
However, when the assessment is done at a Category level, all titles appearing in
Check-Lists under a Conspectus Category should be considered.
4. Below is an example of presenting the assessment both at a Subject and a
Category level. By describing in an analytical way the steps followed in
attributing the appropriate CL indicator, libraries provide justification for the
indicator given.
Example of describing the way of attributing a CL indicator:
Call #
HF5548.2
Line #
Conspectus Title
CL
AC
GL
COM
COMPUTER SCIENCE
3a
3b
COM0.2
Computers – Access Control
1b
3b
Assessment Comments
Category Assessment Comments:
Chl 1-5 (+ 1 in EDU76)
Rass 4 (+1 in EDU76)
Other 0 (1 in LLL9)
Most of the titles have complete holdings
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS. 03600300. >. 1987 (v5)-.
Assessment Comments:
Chl 1 – 1
Rass 0
Other 0
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY REVIEW. 1081-8677, 1065-6901.
>. SUMMER 1997-.
JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA AND
HYPERMEDIA. 1055-8896. 1993 (v2, no4)-. Lacks: 1995 (v4)
JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE LEARNING RESEARCH. >. 1093023X. 1997 (v8, no2)-.
LB1028.3
COM0.3
Computer-Assisted Instruction
3b
3b
JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY AND TEACHERS EDUCATION.
1059-7069. 1997 (V5)-.
Interdisciplinary relations Comments: See also EDU76 for additional
titles on the same subject.
Assessment Comments:
Chl 1-4
Rass 5
Other 1
Most of the titles have complete holdings
Interdisciplinary relations remarkds: See also LLL9 for additional titles
on the same subject.
P98
COM0.41
Computational Linguistics
1b
3b
Q325.5
COM0.44
Machine Learning
HF5548
COM0.5
Q300-390
COM0.6
Q300-316
COM0.7
Q327
COM1
Assessment Comments:
Chl 0-0
Rass 0
Other 0 (1 in LLL9)
Assessment Comments:
Chl 0-0
Rass 0
Other 0
DATA PROCESSING DIGEST. 0011-6858. 1987 (v33)-1995.
0
3b
Office Automation
0
3b
Cybernetics
1b
3b
Cybernetics, General
1b
0
Assessment Comments:
Chl 1-2
Rass 0
Other 0
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND
MACHINE INTELLIGENCE. 0162-8828. 1977 (v19)-.
Pattern Recognition, Perception
Theory
1b
0
Assessment Comments:
Chl 1-2 (Long run, complete holdings)
Rass 0
Other 0
Assessment Comments:
Chl 1-0 (Ceased)
Rass 0
Other 0
Category Assessment Comments:
Chl 1-7
Rass 0
Other 3 (1 ceased)
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN AND
CYBERNETICS. 0018-9472. 1996 (v26)-.
AI EXPERT. 0888-3785. 1992 (v7)-1995 (v10).
ANNALS OF MATHEMATICS AND ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE. 1012-2443. 1995 (v13)-. Lacks: 1995 (v15, no1-4).
Q334-342
COM2
Artificial Intelligence
2b
4
APPLIED INTELLIGENCE. 0924-669X. 1995 (v5)-.
Assessment Comments:
Chl 0-2
Rass 0
Other 3 (1 ceased)
Abbreviations:
Chl = Check-list
Rass = Recommended Association
Other = Titles neither recommended, nor published by any scientific Association
Chl 1-4 means that the library holds 1 of the 4 in total titles appearing in the relevant Check-list.
Category Assessment Comments = Assessment comments at a Category level.
Assessment Comments = Assessment comments at a Subject level.
3. Electronic titles acquired uniquely through recent HEALLink’s agreements with
publishers (i.e. electronic titles to which the libraries do not have a subscription
for their printed counterpart) will not be assessed during this phase of the project.