What's about open access journals? How are they handled?
Jan
Rosemary Strivens wrote:
> 1.We started manually cataloguing both individual ejournal subscriptions
> (which are through SWETS) and those which come with a print package
> about a year ago.
>
> 2.We don't use MARCit. We have an ejournal template on Unicorn
> Workflows, and our cataloguing is fairly basic!
>
> 3.We also encourage users to refer to the catalogue first, rather than
> the Swets A-Z list for example. We are a membership organisation and
> this gives prospective members an idea of what's available. However,
> it's very time consuming and it's difficult to give current information
> on holdings etc.
>
> Rosemary Strivens
> Assistant Librarian, Systems
> Royal Society of Medicine
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> London
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> Robinson
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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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