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Dear John Smith I appreciate your attempt to help, but the problem remains: how to categorize links when many are the result of countless proposals which make them almost unique? In many cases, the answer is not so straightforward. I am taking part of project still under development, and find that what is needed is (at least an attempt of )defining what is what when categorizing links. Do you have any suggestions of literature please? Many thanks Celia Correia -----Original Message----- From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of J.W.T.Smith Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 10:21 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: databases versus e-reference Fatmeh, If an e-resource belongs in two (or more) categories put it in both. Unlike a physical object like a book which can only be in one place at one time (at one classmark) you can have as many pointers (links) as you like to an e-resource. If an e-journal host service also provides a bibliographic search function put it in both categories. Regards, John Smith, The Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Fatmeh Charafeddine wrote: > 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 > ) >