SUNCAT: a modern serials union catalogue for the UK

Burnhill, Peter; Halliday, Leah; Rozenfeld, Slawek; Kidd, Tony

doi:10.1629/1761

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“…This is our first full report to the UK serials community of what we intend -in much the same way that SUNCAT was first reported 24 . Indeed, this is one of a set of strategic initiatives being taken in and around SUNCAT, as the UK serials community begins to exploit the value of a national union serials catalogue, which typically has three sets of serial level information: identification; bibliographic description; holdings and location.…”

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confidence: 56%

Piloting an e-journals preservation registry service (PEPRS)

Burnhill¹,

Pellé²,

Godefroy³

et al. 2009

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community

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The need for a registry of archived scholarly publications features in various reports on digital preservation and archiving of e-journals. Online access to scholarly journals brings many benefits. However, there are genuine concerns about long-term access, given threats from natural disaster, human folly and technological failure. This paper describes a project to pilot an e-journals preservation registry that is being carried out by a UK national academic data centre and the international standards body for serials. Funded by JISC for the UK, various open issues include whether this should be regarded as an international initiative and whether it should help address related concerns in the library community for information on post-cancellation access.

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Piloting an e-journals preservation registry service (PEPRS)

Burnhill¹,

Pellé²,

Godefroy³

et al. 2009

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community

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“…"Highly variable and mostly poor" was the judgment when holdings statements for the leading research libraries in the UK were viewed from the perspective of the UK union catalog of serials (Burnhill et al, 2004). "Highly variable and mostly poor" was the judgment when holdings statements for the leading research libraries in the UK were viewed from the perspective of the UK union catalog of serials (Burnhill et al, 2004).…”

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Tales from The Keepers Registry: Serial Issues About Archiving & the Web

Burnhill¹

2013

Serials Review

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a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o A key task for libraries is to ensure access for their patrons to the scholarly statements now found across the Internet. Three stories reveal progress towards success in that task. The context of these stories is the shift from print to digital format for all types of continuing resources, particularly journals, and the need to archive not just serials but also ongoing 'integrating resources' such as databases and Web sites.The first story is about The Keepers Registry, an international initiative to monitor the extent of e-journal archiving. The second story is about the variety of 'serial issues' that have had to be addressed during the PEPRS (Piloting an E-journals Preservation Registry Service) project which was commissioned in the UK by JISC. These include identification, naming and identification of publishers, and the continuing need for a universal holdings statement. The role of the ISSN, and of the ISSN-L, has been a key. The third story looks beyond e-journals to new research objects and the dynamics of the Web, to the role of citation and fixity, and to broader matters of digital preservation. This story reflects upon seriality, as the Web becomes the principal arena and medium for scholarly discourse. Scientific discourse is now resident on the Web. Much that is issued on the Web is issued nowhere else: it is a digital native. Statistics that indicate the extent of archiving for e-journals to which major university libraries subscribe are also included in the article.

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“…One such example is SUNCAT, a project which is looking into the creation and development of a new UK national union catalogue of journals and other serials. Burnhill and Halliday (2004). Another such project is Docusend, which has been investigating the creation of a one-stop document delivery service for handling journal article requests (www.docusend.ac.uk).…”

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LAMDA: an example of a resource‐sharing document delivery service in UK Higher Education libraries

Goodier

2005

Interlending &Amp; Document Supply

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Purpose -Aims to describe the development of the LAMDA service, from its inception as an eLib project in 1995 to its current status as a commercial service. Design/methodology/approach -Descriptions of the staff structure, turnaround times, equipment and software and the LAMDA Union list are all included. Findings -Attention is drawn to LAMDA's influence on subsequent projects such as Docusend and SUNCAT. Originality/value -The article concludes that the steep rise in electronic journal subscriptions in academic libraries has been a major factor in reducing the number of LAMDA transactions made in recent years.

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SUNCAT: a modern serials union catalogue for the UK

Cited by 9 publications

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Piloting an e-journals preservation registry service (PEPRS)

Piloting an e-journals preservation registry service (PEPRS)

Tales from The Keepers Registry: Serial Issues About Archiving & the Web

LAMDA: an example of a resource‐sharing document delivery service in UK Higher Education libraries

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