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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:58:03 -0400
From: Susan Davis <unlsdb@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject: Re: 856 links -- Alan May

Hello, we take out all 856 links to products/websites if we are not
entitled to full access.  Our patrons and public service librarians assume
we have access if a link appears in an 856 because we do catalog all our
electronic journals and database products.  It's hard to remember to remove
the 856s when we pass in records from OCLC for order purposes, even if we
are ordering an electronic subscription since we won't have access until
the payment/license/registration process is complete.

Susan Davis

Susan Davis
Head, Periodicals
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
134 Lockwood Library
Buffalo, NY  14260-2210
(716) 645-2784
(716) 645-5955 fax
unlsdb@buffalo.edu

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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 19:13:26 +0200
From: Carol.Bream@cec.eu.int
Subject: RE: 856 links -- Alan May

We use the $3"Materials specified" and $z "Public note" sub-fields
e.g.

85641$zFulltext available from Volume 35, Issue 1, 1997 onwards. Access from
Commission intranet
only$uhttp://www.swetswise.com/link/access%5Fdb?issn=0021-9886

$3 - Materials specified (NR) Contains information that specifies the part
of the bibliographic item to which the field applies. Please note that
Subfield $3 is always used to provide further information about the
relationship if it is not a one-to-one relationship.
e.g.

856 41$3Tables of contents$zAccess from Commission intranet only
$uhttp://www.swetsnet.nl/link/access%5Fdb?issn=0003-603X

856 42$3Abstacts$u

856 42$3Journal homepage. Tables of contents and abstracts

If there are Tables of contents but not full text of articles:

856 41$3Tables of contents$u

856 42$3Executive summary in English and
German$uhttp://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/intwipo/disbei/dp%5F81.html

Carol Bream
European Commission
Central Library

http://europa.eu.int/eclas

-----Original Message-----
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 10:28:41 -0500
From: alan may <amay@bama.ua.edu>
Subject: 856 links

All,

We're having a problem with some of our 856 links, and I was hoping I
could get suggestions from the list. My understanding is that, in some
resources (like First Search), we have limited access, depending on our
subscription. Some of our copy catalogers bring in records and then check
the links. However, unless we spend a fair amount of time looking around
in databases, it's often hard to figure out exactly what we have access
to, and how much access we have. We thought about deleting the 856 field
for resources to which we have zero or limited access (like a brief
description, summary, or a table of contents), but here's the crux: we
figure that in some cases, patrons might want information provided by the
links, and other patrons might click on a link we provide and find the
page they're taken to confusing and/or frustrating.

How are other libraries dealing with this? Any suggestions are welcome.

Alan May