Improve locate process to accurately determine an article’s availability based on the partner’s portfolio coverage
Currently, when a digital resource sharing request include only the publication date year, the system interprets the publication date as January 1 of that year. If the partner’s portfolio coverage includes only volume/issue, the availability is calculated based on the volume/issue information in the request. However, if the portfolio coverage includes both year and month, then the availability is calculated based on dates only. Even if the coverage also includes volume/issue, the volume/issue data in the request is ignored, and the link resolver does not estimate dates based on volume/issue. The locate process then checks if there is an embargo set in the lender’s portfolio and calculates the embargo from today’s date going one year backwards. The volume/issue information is ignored and the link resolves does not estimate dates based on volume/issue. This leads to many requests being located even when an article falls outside of the partner’s journal coverage.
We would like the precision of the locate process to the improved by incorporating all of the information provided in the request form (ISSN, date, volume, issue, article title, author) and the partner’s portfolio coverage when determining the availability of an article as seen in the flowchart attached.
Marie Song
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