Support : Publications : Chronolog Archives : Jan/Feb 2003

StarLinks Subscription Manager for e-Journal Linking Enhanced with Added Functionality

Dialog DataStar has enhanced their e-Journal offering. New e-Journal management tools allow customers to set up e-Journal links through the public DataStar Web site and offer users greater flexibility in managing their subscriptions. Previously, customers had to have a customized DataStarWeb to use the e-Journal links.

The StarLinks Subscription Manager is an administrative tool designed to customize access to fulltext articles from 9,469 unique leading scientific, technical and medical journals from 40 different publishers and aggregators. This selection of sources continues to grow.

Enhancements

The latest release of the StarLinks Subscription Manager offers more flexibility in customizing which e-Journal links will be presented to users, based on existing agreements with publishers and aggregators. StarLinks Subscription Manager now includes tools for the e-Journal administrator to:

• enable and disable publishers
• activate e-Journal access by User ID, Bill To as well as for all users
• set up customized subscription lists for different groups
• copy subscription profiles from one group to another
• give administrative rights to others to enable them to change or revoke permission rights

From the Subscription Manager the administrator can also make journal choices. For example, she can find out if a particular journal is offered by a specific publisher by selecting the links, "Publishers," and "Search for Journals" and entering the journal name in the box "Search by Publication Title" or by selecting the link "Search by ISSN" and entering the ISSN number. She can also restrict the search to a certain publisher/aggregator by clicking the publisher's name(s) before doing the search. If the journals are found, they will be listed with their ISSN numbers and the publisher(s) that offer them.

Figure 1 illustrates a sample company, its user groups and available subscriptions.

View Figure 1.

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