We are looking at our ejournal cataloguing policy. We currently manually
catalogue both individual ejournal subscriptions and ejournals which come as a
part of large packages, but are finding this difficult to sustain. It would be
useful to hear of other libraries’ experiences. I am happy to summarise for the
list.
1. Does your institution manually catalogue both its individual ejournal
subscriptions and ejournals which come as a part of large packages?
2. Do you use MARCit or a similar product?
3. Have there been any downsides from using MARCit, for example, in terms of
reduced searchability of your catalogue?
4. If you answered yes to either of questions 1 or 2, what is your rationale for
continuing to include ejournals in your library catalogue, rather than rely on
the A-Z list of a product such as SFX?
5. Has anyone decided to abandon the cataloguing of ejournals (with perhaps
the exception of individual subscriptions) in favour of the A-Z list in SFX (or
similar product)?
Many thanks,
Sharon
Sharon Robinson
Electronic Resources Advisor
Edinburgh Napier University
Craiglockhart Campus
Edinburgh EH14 1DJ
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