Access to periodicals holdings information: creating links between databases and the library catalog

Rehabilitating Killer Serials

“…8 The availability of e-journal metadata from external sources and the desirability of using automated methods to load and maintain record sets for aggregated e-journals have led many libraries, exemplified by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the University of Glamorgan, to prefer adding separate records for ejournal titles, separate, that is, from the records for those titles' print equivalents. 9 In 1999, Martin and Hoffman surveyed forty-three Research I and Research II academic libraries to study how they provided access to e-journals from aggregators. 10 Of the libraries that added catalog records for aggregated e-journal titles, 20 percent used the single-record approach (combining e-journal information and printjournal information in a single-record), 16 percent added separate records, 9 percent used both methods, and 30 percent gave no indication of the approaches used.…”

Delivering electronic resources with Web OPACs and other Web‐based tools: needs of reference librarians

“…In addition, they contain local fields, which allow list generation and rapid deletion. The MARC records are computer-generated from a vendor's title list, so once the process is set up, it is more or less automatic (Britten, 1999). There are other indications that additional steps are being taken to link catalog records to more than just the resource being described in the record, and this could provide a way for generating external databases directly from the catalog.…”

Title-Level Analytics for Journal Aggregators

“…24 Britten et al, provide a description of the approach taken by the University of Tennessee Libraries in Knoxville (UTK). 25 The UTK librarians chose to use the separate-record approach, creating brief bibliographic records coding with easy retrieval for maintenance or removal. They used some creative MARC tagging, the pseudo-GMD (electronic full text), and specified leaders and notes.…”