Creating Article-Level Discovery of Print-Only Foreign Language Journals: A Case Study of SALToC's Distributed Approach.

Foreign language journals are important components of interdisciplinary area studies collections at research libraries. In the US, although these are low-use materials almost by definition, they are indispensable for many types of research. Coordinated collection development among key libraries with shared interests in these materials is often the best way of broadening the collective collection, strategically reducing duplication to free up resources for broader acquisitions while relying on collection sharing infrastructures to implement shared access to the journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]