You've decided it's time to offer access to electronic journals. These and other questions will need to be answered, whether you use an aggregator service or set up access to electronic journals yourself. This discussion may serve as a guide to help you evaluate various options available in today's marketplace.
Several organizations offer access to electronic journals through gateway systems.
They typically offer the ability to both browse and search by keywords in article titles, abstracts, author names, and journal titles. Those organizations representing multiple publishers support retrieval of results across all publishers and disciplines. Specifying fields to search, limiting by date, and sorting results by various parameters are also supported by some systems. Selected articles can be displayed on the user's desktop or delivered by fax or email. However, most of these systems take a simple approach to indexing, based on retrieving words in the article title, abstract, journal title, and publisher.