This week and last, several of us have noticed that Citation Linker searching isn't always turning up a truly complete list of online access options for serials.
Yesterday, Vida encountered this problem with the Philadelphia Inquirer: Citation Linker didn't identify the availability of full-text via Factiva, so it looked as though the online version ended at 1922.
Days before, a student looking for the LA Times for the late 1980s and 1990s couldn't imagine (in this instance, wisely) that we'd be missing 20 some odd years and wrote me an email . Citation Linker listed only LexisNexis holdings (6 mos.), ProQuest Historical Newspapers (to 1985) and a HOLLIS link. Factiva -- absent from this SFX results list -- had the time period the student needed to search.
I notified OIS of the problem via the Comments line and was told that after a recent update, the SFX software was not parsing Factiva links properly. The good news is that they're aware of the problem and addressing it; I don't know how soon the fix will happen, however. As of this writing, the Citation Linker list for the LA Times is still incorrect.
Until the problem is resolved -- or just whenever you have the feeling that your Citation Linker results are not quite right, Factiva is another place for you to try.
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