title: Which Route Do I Take? A Viewpoint on Locally-Developed vs. Commercially Available Journal Management Solutions creator: Oberg, Steve subject: LN. Data base management systems. subject: JB. Serials management. subject: HN. e-journals. subject: HP. e-resources. subject: LQ. Library automation systems. description: This article discusses the growing need for tools or systems that will provide more effective management of and improved user access for journal collections, especially for e-journals. The author briefly describes initial efforts at the local library level to develop management systems and mentions the rise of vendor-supplied solutions, which have become very popular. In spite of the current popularity of vendor-based solutions, the author argues that there is still a niche for locally developed journal management systems. One such system, developed at the author's home institution, Taylor University, is featured as a case study. date: 2004 type: Preprint type: NonPeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://eprints.rclis.org/5899/1/dbwebapps.html relation: ARRAY(0xaa95174) identifier: Oberg, Steve Which Route Do I Take? A Viewpoint on Locally-Developed vs. Commercially Available Journal Management Solutions., 2004 [cited var currentTime = new Date();var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1;var day = currentTime.getDate();var year = currentTime.getFullYear();document.write(month + "/" + day + "/" + year)]. Available from WWW: http://eprints.rclis.org/5899/. [Preprint] relation: http://eprints.rclis.org/5899/