As someone else mentioned in response to this solution, the downside is that you have to manually add each new volume as it comes on your series order.  However, I have been told by Gale tech support that the new GVRL platform eliminates the need for this workaround.  Has anyone switched to the new platform and tested this?

Thanks.

Julie

Julie Loder
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Vanderbilt University Library
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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Anita Foster
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 7:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [SERIALST] URLs for Gale series??

Hello Buddy -

Take a look at the Gale Virtual Reference eBook Subcollection Manager.
You can get to it from your Gale Admin account. I have used it to set up direct URLs for our Business Plan handbooks and for our Contemporary Musicians subscription.

Information about this is here:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/facts/Subcollections.pdf.

Anita

Quoting "Pennington, Buddy D." <penningtonb@UMKC.EDU>:

> Hi all,
>
> I am wondering if anyone has gotten any reasonable answers from Gale
> as to why they cannot provide title-level URLs for their online
> series. For example, we have Business Plans Handbook volumes 1-17.
> And we have 17 separate URLs for this title.
>
> Currently, we are using one bibliographic record with a separate 856
> field for each volume. This does not scale forward, as you can
> imagine. We could use Serials Solutions, but they also treat each
> volume as a separate book record. So we would end up with 17 separate
> bib records in this case. This is also a problem unless a library
> decides to limit access to just the current few volumes.
>
> Or I suppose we could link to just the GVRL interface. What are other
> libraries doing?
>
> Seems like treating these as serials would be much easier in terms of
> user access. Has anyone heard whether Gale is planning on doing
> anything about this?
>
> Buddy Pennington
> Director of Collections and Access Management University of Missouri -
> Kansas City
> 304 Miller Nichols Library
> 800 East 51st Street
> Kansas City, MO  64110
> 816-235-1548
> 816-333-5584 (fax)
>
> UMKC Libraries: Discovery. Knowledge. Empowerment.
>
>

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Anita Foster                    email:akfoste@ilstu.edu
Electronic Resources Librarian  ph: 309-438-3446 Milner Library, Illinois State University Normal, IL 61790

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