The UC-eLinks team received this question from a librarian about the recently-published article on Peer Review Indication in UC-eLinks.
Question: Because journals aren’t peer reviewed (articles are), how do you decide which journal titles get the peer-review indicator icon?
Answer: Great question! According to ExLibris (the provider of SFX, our UC-eLinks software) the source of the peer review information is the vendor or publisher. Vendors and publishers tell ExLibris whether articles in a journal are subject to peer review and ExLibris stores this information in their SFX knowledgebase at the journal level. Since this is intended to be a journal level indicator, the peer-review icon (little magnifying glass) will only appear in an A-Z journal list, not in a UC-eLinks menu window.
Hello, from the questioner.
I still don’t understand why some journals w/ peer-reviewed content get the indicator, while others with peer-reviewed content do not. This seems to be a problem in the underlying data and as such, can only serve to confuse our patrons. Thank you.
August 20, 2012 @ 12:34 pm
Thanks, Michael. Let’s gather some examples to send to ExLibris. What you described does seem like a problem with the information the vendors/publishers are providing. We can ask the knowledgebase manager at ExLibris to followup on this for us.
August 20, 2012 @ 2:12 pm