Hi Lesley

You are correct in thinking that the Nesli offer does not include the Book
Series and Monographs, only the Journals.  For the purposes of the trial
access to everything on LINK was switched on.  The Book Series require a
separate licence agreement.

Best wishes

Caroline

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> From:         Lesley Crawshaw[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
> Sent:         06 February 2002 23:11
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> Subject:      Re: cataloguing of electronic monographs
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry that this isn't an answer to your question, but though you might
> want
> to know this.
>
> Here at Hertfordshire we also signed up to the Springer NESLI deal, and
> did
> as part of our trial access have the pleasures of accessing the monograph
> series. However I understood from Springer that these were not part of the
> NESLI deal (a real pity this!) and that our access would be removed once
> the
> trial ended. Our access to these monographs was removed in the last week
> or
> so.
>
> It maybe worth checking if you still have access? Of course if you do
> still
> have access I would very much like to know.
>
> Cheers
> Lesley
>
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> University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Tracey Stanley
> Sent: 06 February 2002 17:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: cataloguing of electronic monographs
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> Here at Leeds we have recently signed up to the Springer NESLI deal, and
> as
> part of this deal we have access to the various monograph series online
> (eg: Lecture Notes in Computer Science).  I'd be interested to hear
> whether
> anyone else who has signed up to this deal is considering creating
> catalogue records for these?
>
> At present we catalogue all of the printed volumes that we receive
> individually, under their separate titles.  It would be a huge job for us
> to add links to the online version from each catalogue record, especially
> as it isn't always clear which volumes are available online.  However, our
> users tend to look for them by individual title, so may miss out on the
> online access if we don't add the links.
>
> This raises a wider issue for us about the cataloguing of electronic
> monographs, which is likely to become a bigger issue in the future,
> especially if we sign up to any of the ebooks packages currently
> available.  I'm aware that Netlibrary offer electronic MARC records, but
> do
> any of the other suppliers offer these?
>
> Has anyone considered these issues or come up with any solutions that
> they'd be willing to share?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tracey
>
> Tracey Stanley
> Head of E-Strategy and Development
> Brotherton Library
> University of Leeds
>