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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 19:09:27 -0400
From: Gregory Szczyrbak <gszczyrb@MARAUDER.MILLERSV.EDU>
Subject: Re: E-journals in online services (Carol Green)

Carol,

> or sometimes both.  We want to be able to delete titles easily in the
> event of cancellation of a subscription.  Rather than searching OCLC
> and exporting MARC records if available or doing full original cataloging,

    The first thing we did was to create a program that would compare our
catalog holdings (by issn or OCLC, depending on which is provided on the
web page list of e-journals) with those on the web page.  We have a
student who is like Einstein with computers.  I think he heavily relied on
Microsoft's Access.   Once we determined all the matches,
another program inserted public notes into our catalog  pointing to the
electronic journals - at this time our catalog software does not support
linking through 856 fields.  The first  program also listed all issn's or
OCLC numbers that did not have matches in our catalog.  So, we downloaded
all of these and created copy records for them with a public note - this
last part was all done manually (by yours truly)

> we propose the creation of a local record with a minimal number of fields
> necessary to direct the user to the online services where that journal is
> found.  We really don't want to "hang" the URL on the print record if there
> is one.

   Something you might be interested in.  We are looking into doing this.

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/97-summer/article2.html

Good luck

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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:43:10 +0800
From: #WANG ZHIHONG# <P143668708@ntu.edu.sg>
Subject: RE: E-journals in online services (Carol Green)

Dear Colleague,

I am a Master student doing a research on how libraries handle
electronic journals. So I am very interested in hearing how you deal
with electronic journals in your library as well as other libraries.

So if you receive any email regarding to your question, would you please
send me a copy?

Thank you very much.

Wang Zhihong
Division of Information Studies
School of Applied Science
Blk N4# 2A-36
Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798