There are varying views on the receptiveness of their system to change. Aurora Ioanid and Jim LeBlanc were the facilitators and David Miller was a recorder. One common lament was the lack of coordination between different library units handling various aspects of e-journals. The people who do selection and testing, cataloging and licensing perform their tasks without consideration of their fellow librarians' tasks. With collection of e-journals, stability and costs were prime factors.
Some libraries receive electronic versions free if they subscribe to the print version.
Some libraries collect e-journals of professional societies. Holdings statements for e-journals vary more than their print counterparts. A wide variety of considerations exist when cataloging e-journals. A primary consideration for many is what unit to catalog. When a library owns rights to a service such as Proquest, a single record with a link to the collection is the way the majority of libraries handle it.