Virtual Approval Plan

At this time, Bibliographers in the science, technology, and business disciplines (with a few exceptions) are on a Virtual Approval Plan trial with Blackwell. They will be receiving weekly reports in Collection Manager from which they can deselect books in advance of shipment. If they have chosen to cancel any titles from their weekly reports, they will create a “reject list” within CM. Other Bibliographers who are interested in reviewing these rejects will now be asked to check this virtual reject shelf in case they would like to buy any of the canceled titles.

The schedule for the Virtual Approval Plan is:

1. Virtual Approval reports are sent from Blackwell every Tuesday morning. Bibliographers in the sciences/technology/business disciplines will review their reports and create reject lists by the end of the day on Wednesdays (midnight).
2. Interdisciplinary bibliographers interested in reviewing this virtual reject shelf will have until the end of the day on Fridays (midnight) to review the lists and submit any “buy” commands into the Library Notes field.

The following documents outline the various processes involved in the Virtual Approval Plan:

• Creating a Virtual Approval report (for those Bibliographers on the Virtual Approval Plan trial)

   

• Creating Reject Lists for the Virtual Rejects Shelf (for those Bibliographers on the Virtual Approval Plan trial)

 

• Checking the Virtual Rejects Shelf in Collection Manager

 

• Virtual Approval Plan Subprofile Codes from Blackwell

 

• Below is a brief overview of the commands we will be using in the virtual reject shelf Library Notes field. For additional information, review the above documents.

 

Process	Command
Initial canceling of title (done by Bibliographers on Virtual Approval Plan)	cancel
Overriding to purchase title (done by other Bibliographers reviewing the virtual reject shelf)	buy
Changing buy command to cancel title (done if mistakenly entered "buy" into Library Notes field)	recancel