Re: Electronic Journal Cataloging Gurevich, Konstantin 01 Jul 2009 14:53 UTC
Dorothy, All service providers have their fans, but I think you need to give Serials Solutions a good look. In addition to maintaining an A-Z list for you, they can provide MARC records for e-journals to be loaded into your OPAC on a monthly basis, if that's what you want (check out our OPAC, easily googlable) - for an additional fee. They can also provide link resolver services. The beauty of SS is that they host everything, you don't need a special server to get their services, which saves a lot of staff time on the IT side. And I agree with Barbara - cataloging e-journals "by hand" is absolutely unfeasible. Good luck! Hope this helps. Konstantin Gurevich Head Serials Cataloging and Metadata Maintenance Rush Rhees Library University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627-9452 (585) 275-9452 kgurevich@library.rochester.edu -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara Pope Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 4:50 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Electronic Journal Cataloging We get marc records for our electronic titles from Serials Solutions. Whether or not we used Serials Solutions or not, I cannot imagine trying to keep up with the frequent changes or urls, dates, etc. manually. We have around 20,000 or so electronic journal titles which have different levels of availability and dates in different databases. Serials Solutions sends us a data upload every month around the middle of the month. There are times when the A to Z List is more accurate because of some change with a specific title, such as a publisher pulling a title altogether or setting an embargo for a title. Sincerely, Barbara M. Pope, MALS Periodicals/Reference Librarian Axe Library Pittsburg State University 1701 S. Broadway Pittsburg KS 66762 620-235-4884 bpope@pittstate.edu Notarnicola, Dorothy Lynn (LARC-B702)[TESSADA & ASSOC INC] wrote: > > Dear Serialists: > > We are trying to figure out the best way to let our patrons know what > our complete e-journal holdings are. We are using SFX as a URL handler > and A to Z list provider. Our online catalog is SIRSI. > > NASA Langley has converted most of our serials collection to > electronic holdings. The staff is of mixed opinion on how to handle > our electronic holdings, especially if we want to have a single > 'catalog of record.' Since serials packages change, archive packages > keep popping up, vendors are swapped out and subscriptions dropped as > budgets change we are finding that maintaining both SFX and the online > catalog to be time consuming and a duplication of effort. (Especially > with a staff of 2!) > > For example, we have all the Wiley and almost all the Springer journal > titles through one of the special package arrangements but we haven't > loaded the 3000+ journal records into our online catalog, only into > the URL handler. And what if we drop one of the packages next year.... > > How are other libraries handling their online holdings? Are you > maintaining the actual holdings in the online catalog? If so, do you > use a URL handler? If you have a URL handler do you also maintain a > complete holdings statement in the catalog? > > Thank you in advance for your replies. > > *Dorothy Notarnicola * > > *Acquisitions Librarian* > > NASA Langley Research Center > > MS 185 * Bldg 1194 * Room 306 > > Hampton, VA 23681-2199 > > Phone: 757-864-7142 > > Email: dorothy.l.notarnicola@nasa.gov >