Link to access specific ebook collection in ScienceDirect

[Stacy Pober]

One way is to put a unique string into one of the MARC record fields that
is indexed in your opac.

Of course, that would require either editing or reloading all of the
records for these books, so it may be more trouble than you would wish.

We currently have unique identifiers for each batch of ebook records in a
searchable field that is not displayed by default.  Those are mostly used
by the librarians, when we want to see something like all of the eBrary DDA
records, or all of the streaming videos from one provider.  In our system,
those are in the 910 field, which is indexed but not displayed unless you
look at the MARC version.

We also have collection identifiers in the 500 field, and that field is
 displayed to users.



On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Cabus, Michael <CabusM at philau.edu> wrote:

>  Howdy,
>
>       We had a collection of ebooks that have migrated away from an
> individual database, to a larger database (ScienceDirect).
>
> I would like to provide a link or some other method to direct users to
> this collection within the larger collection;
>
> Does anyone know of a way to do this?  I may just have to indicate, these
> books are now part of ScienceDirect, etc, but I think faculty liked having
> a way to browse titles.
>
> Kind of random question perhaps without an answer, but thought I would try.
>
> Thanks so much
>
> Michael Cabus
>
> Systems Librarian, Paul J. Gutman Library
>
> Philadelphia University
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