[WEB4LIB] electronic collections

[Vickie Kline]

Lisa,

We've created separate electronic locations in our online catalog for 
each group of electronic resource records (Marcive gov. document 
records,  Proquest full-text titles, Gale Expanded Academic ASAP 
titles,  netLibrary ebooks, etc.)     This makes it very easy to batch 
load, overlay or purge specific groups of records without endangering 
the rest of your catalog!    For aggregators  who add and drop full-text 
titles frequently, we're starting to purge and load new records on a 
monthly basis!  

Here's our catalog:
    https://unicorn.ycp.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/49

Look under the search button for a pull-down that says "ALL"  - you can 
change that to "Schmidt Electronic Resources" to do some searching for 
sample records.

As you've discovered, the thing that vendor records don't hand well with 
is changes in available data ranges for full-text serials in aggregator 
databases.   We too  use a serials management solution;  TDnet provides 
our primary serial holding list:  
    http://www.tdnet.com/york/
TDnet does their best to keep track of all the pesky embargoes for us!

It's not a perfect solution, but we feel it's the most practical way to 
deal with batches of electronic resources at the moment.

The next step will be  metasearchers  that can be targetted at desired  
z39.50 and non-Z sources.   A lot of vendors have introduced first 
generation products in this area, but I haven't seen any truly catch 
fire yet...   Maybe we'll see one at ALA  Midwinter!

Cheers!

Vickie

Pons, Lisa (PONSLM) wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>A very general question, if I dare.
>
>We are revising some of our subject pages... and thinking of putting a
>database behind this to power it. It would list resources (indexes,
>databases most likely), url's and then relate those to a subject (or many
>subjects).
>
>
>However, we're concerned with adding another data source. That is, we have a
>library catalog, we have a serial aggregator to show us full text journals
>we subscribe to, etc... now, we would have another database to maintain and
>keep up.
>
>What are others doing?
>
>Are you pulling this info from your libraries catalog? Who is maintaing all
>these url's etc...
>
>thanks!
>
>Lisa Pons
>
>Webmaster
>University Libraries
>University of Cincinnati
>lisa.pons at uc.edu
>(513)556-1431
>  
>

-- 

Vickie L. Kline              		vkline at ycp.edu
Head of Technical Services		Phone:  717-815-1459
Associate Professor        		FAX:    717-849-1608						

York College of PA - Schmidt Library
York, PA 17405-7199

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would
not be called research, would it?"

			-Albert Einstein