Many librarians find it difficult to compile information about perpetual access to
their e-journals because it may be scattered across numerous license agreements.
Rather than creating and maintaining a database for perpetual access information
that is separate from the order records and holdings information found in
integrated library systems (ILS), the University of Memphis is using Innovative
Interfaces’ Sierra ILS. By leveraging fixed and variable-length fields to record
perpetual access information, we can perform queries and generate reports that
are helpful in making collection development and preservation decisions.