Fatme
Anglo-American cataloguing rules for General Material Designation currently
makes no distinction between the varieties of e-resources. They are all
"electronic resources". Have you considered accepting this, and providing a
subject rather than format categorization for your end-users?
Graeme S. Forbes
Head of Bibliographic Services
National Library of Scotland
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33 Salisbury Place
Edinburgh
EH9 1SL
Scotland, 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 Fatmeh Charafeddine
Sent: 10 June 2003 07:21
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Subject: databases versus e-reference
We are having a hard time categorizing our e-resources on our library web
page.
We find an overlap between, what could be classified under an E-Reference,
Electronic Database and Electronic Journals ?
some examples:
An indexing and abstracting database (with potential link to full text)
should go under e-reference or e-databases ?
A package subscription to scholarly journal such as ASME, ASCE, ACS web
edition, IEEE explore, ACM
digital library .. should go under e-journals or e-databases or both ?
Standards, statistics, country reports ..? e-reference or databases ?
Fatme Charafeddine
Serials Librarian/University Libraries
American University of Beirut
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