On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Barbara Thompson wrote:
> We (University of Sheffield Library) are looking to add the free eBooks
> provided by NCBI Bookshelf
> (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=books) to our catalogue and
> wondered if any other libraries have already catalogued these books and
> can offer any tips.
According to their FAQ
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=helpbookshelf&part=helpbookshelf.Commonly_Asked_Quest)
MARC records aren't available as such but it does say:
"Currently, we do not have a way of batch downloading MARC records for
Bookshelf books.
"It is possible to view all our books with MARC records by using
LocatorPlus at
http://locatorplusv2.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First,
searching for "Electronic link: see Bookshelf via NCBI", and limiting by
"Call Number - (include punctuation and spaces)".
"From these results, click on each LocatorPlus record to view the MARC
record."
FWIW I couldn't get this page to open! There are records, though, on OCLC
for at least some of them.
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Rose-Ann Movsovic email: [log in to unmask]
Collections Manager tel: 0118 378 7487
University of Reading Library, UK web: www.reading.ac.uk/library
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