Hi,
we have all our e-journals available on SwetsWise and recommend our users to search through SwetsWise for our journals rather than our library catalogue. This is because not all of the subscriptions are available on our library catalogue due to the fact that some of the providers, cannot provide us with marc 21 records .
Some time ago our bibliographic librarian and myself took on the mammoth task of creating hundreds of records manually
for our library catalogue, for certain large journal packages.
It was soooo time consuming that we decided we would not to do this again and it was decided to use SwetsWise for our A-Z list of subscriptions.
Unfortunately we do not have the benefit of a federated search engine which would improve the situation but we are considering this for the near future.
Kind regards
Christine Hayes
Electronic Journals Administrator/Licence Co-Ordinator
University of Greenwich
Dreadnought Library D023
30 Park Row
Greenwich
London
SE10 9LS
Tel 020 8331 8251 Fax 020 8331 8195
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Subject: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] Ejournal cataloguing
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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