• Need quick access to periodical issues when cataloging and binding serial titles
• No ONE place to find all of the government periodicals
• Create a product similar to the CIS Government Periodicals Index
• Provide access to full text online journals rather than just bibliographic information

• Provide serial issue access to depositories for binding and claiming purposes
• Provide full text search capability

• University of Auburn
• University of Louisville
• Military Periodical Site

• Access assists us with the maintenance of the collection
• Only need to make changes to each record once
• Assists us in updating the periodicals on a weekly and monthly basis by keeping track of their frequency
• Use of a Web-agent

Static Database Query Arranged by SuDocs Number

• Received an internal grant from Washburn University of $40,000
• Participated in a partnership with the Topeka Area Bankruptcy Council
• Provide access to their decisions
• Purchased ISYSWeb
• A full text search engine warehouse
• Purchased ISYS Spider

• Index up to 30 different types of file formats
• Link up to 35 indexes
• Web Spider component

• Not satisfied with the ISYS Spider brief results
• Brief results were not consistent
• Some results displayed HTML tags and others text

Deciding to Mirror

• Downloading all of the periodical issues gave us more control over them
• Provides permanent public access to them
• Mirrored with Black Widow software
• Required at least 18+ gigs of hard disk space
• Very time consuming
• Ask Dee my documents assistant
• Restructured our Department

• Some sites do not allow mirroring
• Use anti-robot files
• Several Military sites used these
• Some formats cannot be indexed automatically
• Zip files
• Not accessible some days
• Difficult to download images in HTML documents

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Searching the Periodicals

• Each periodical title can be searched

What About Backups?

• Create a search engine that will search all of the periodicals at once
• Provide an FTP site where people can download the periodical issue they need
• Have a partner site at the University of Louisville, who will mirror our site
• Goal of adding five new titles a week
• Convert HTML to PDF

• Be INNOVATIVE & CREATIVE
• Identify an electronic niche
• Be Realistic
• Plan ahead
• Start small & beta test your product
• In house project
• Be patient
• Be willing to reorganize your department or get outside funding through grants