Re: Serials Holdings Lists -- 2 messages Stephen D. Clark 24 Feb 2000 18:47 UTC
2) messages: 1)--------------------------------- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Serials Holdings Lists -- Christina Liggins Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:22:24 -0500 From: Greg Szczyrbak <Greg.Szczyrbak@millersv.edu> What software did you use to create the list that you have now? We have a similar list. We use Microsoft Access to maintain it. When we starting EBSCOHOST, I asked EBSCO to send us a list of the journals in an Excel sheet. Then I imported the Excel sheet into our Access database. That was the easy part. You have already identified the difficult part - keeping up with the changes. I haven't found a satisfactory way to do this. EBSCO provides a place that shows database changes, but it doesn't include all the information that you need, such as the date that thew full text starts. If you have other questions, feel free to contact me. Gregory Szczyrbak Millersville University Ganser Library - Periodicals Millersville University PA 17602 717.872.3645 2)----------------- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Serials Holdings Lists -- Christina Liggins Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:28:16 -0600 From: "Pennington, Buddy" <buddy.pennington@rockhurst.edu> Is EbscoHost the only FT database you have? If so, I would create a separate list of Ebsco Journals and have that available with your local holdings list. Is your local holdings list in a database like Microsoft Access? You could incorporate the two lists into a single database and use that to print out a combined list of the journals available locally and in EbscoHost. Whatever you do , do not enter FT database holdings information into your OPAC manually. Not only is it very labor intensive to enter the holdings, it is even more labor intensive to constantly check those holdings against the FT database holdings (which we all know change on a constant basis). I download the holdings files from the database vendors' websites and import the information into an Access Database. Then I do some tweaking to clean up the data, and I am done. The whole process takes me a couple of hours for a database of over 15,000 records in about 8 FT databases. I plan on doing this twice per year (summer and Christmas break) to reflect any changes in the FT databases. Whatever you do, think about how you can keep it current without spending a lot of time on labor. And good luck!! Buddy Pennington Acquisitions/Serials Librarian Rockhurst University Greenlease Library buddy.pennington@rockhurst.edu #816-501-4143 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Serials Holdings Lists Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:25:50 -0500 From: Christina Liggins <cliggins@CHC.EDU> Our library has a Serials Holdings List for all our print/microformed journals and indexes. We have recently subscribed to Ebscohost, which is a database that contains the full-text versions of many periodical titles. One suggestion has been that we add all of the periodical titles covered in full-text in Ebscohost to our Holdings List. Have any other libraries done this? What is your advice on this matter? Would another way of approaching this be to make a note in our Holdings List that we subscribe to Ebscohost and then provide a separate list of which journals are covered in full-text in Ebscohost? I know that the full-text coverage could change quickly in Ebscohost and other databases of this type. Thanks for any help. Christina Liggins -----Original Message----- From: Stephen D. Clark [mailto:sdclar@mail.wm.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:20 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Serials Holdings Lists -- Christina Liggins -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Serials Holdings Lists Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:25:50 -0500 From: Christina Liggins <cliggins@CHC.EDU> Our library has a Serials Holdings List for all our print/microformed journals and indexes. We have recently subscribed to Ebscohost, which is a database that contains the full-text versions of many periodical titles. One suggestion has been that we add all of the periodical titles covered in full-text in Ebscohost to our Holdings List. Have any other libraries done this? What is your advice on this matter? Would another way of approaching this be to make a note in our Holdings List that we subscribe to Ebscohost and then provide a separate list of which journals are covered in full-text in Ebscohost? I know that the full-text coverage could change quickly in Ebscohost and other databases of this type. Thanks for any help. Christina Liggins