Re: Summary of responses to journals in aggregator sets (Naomi Lloyd) Marcia Tuttle 01 May 2001 12:44 UTC
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:18:54 -0700 From: Naomi Lloyd <lloyd@TECHBC.CA> Subject: Re: Summary of responses to journals in aggregator sets, etc. (Ev erett Allgood) Hi All, One of the challenges of procuring these records is keeping them up to date. The journal coverage tends to change fairly regularly and maintaining correct holdings information could be a challenge. A colleague suggested that with EBSCOhost journals a solution might be to download the records every couple of months (deleting the records for the previous download). This would preclude the time-consuming task of manually checking the list of journals covered. This colleague felt that this approach would not be possible with ProQuest databases as one paid a fee every time one downloaded the records. I spoke to a sales rep. at ProQuest at a recent conference and he said that this was not the case. That one could download the records any number of times after an initial fee. I'm not sure that he really understood the problem, though. Naomi _____________________________ Naomi Lloyd Information Resources Specialist The Portal Technical University of British Columbia 2620 Surrey Place Mall King George Highway Surrey, BC V3T 2W1 Ph: (604) 586-6018 Fax: (604) 586-6025 http://portal.techbc.ca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:02:52 -0400 From: Everett Allgood <everett.allgood@NYU.EDU> Subject: Summary of responses to journals in aggregator sets, etc. Colleagues : I don't want to get your hopes up too much with the Subject Line in this message. When I posted my original query to Serialst regarding available bibliographic record sets for Aggregator Databases, I received a number of responses. Alas, by far the majority of them were interested in what I learned, so I thought I would send a summary reponse to the list. Obviously, this seems to be a topic of great interest to serialists. In fact, for those attending ALA in San Francisco this June, there is a tentative proposal that this will be a discussion topic at the Monday afternoon ALCTS Committee to Study Serials Cataloging meeting. Stay tuned for details, and watch for a posting of the final CSSC agenda. As for the substantive responses, I spoke with John Riemer, the Chair of the "PCC Task Group on Journals in Aggregator Databases." He pointed me to a list of bibliographic records for aggregator sets available at the OCLC WorldCat web site: http://www.stats.oclc.org/cgi-bin/db2www/wcs/wcs_cols.d2w/Electronic I also spoke with the CONSER Coordinator, Jean Hirons. She was particularly interested in the idea of institutions forming cooperative arrangements to catalog the titles within these large aggregator sets. One respondent said he had indeed formed a cooperative cataloging project with another institution on one or two of the aggregator sets. However, this was not established on an "official" level. Rather one in which both catalogers knew their institutions were receiving the same set, and so decided to collaborate in their cataloging. The rest of my responses (between 15-20) were from those interested in what I learned. I hope this is helpful. Everett Allgood Serials Cataloger New York University Libraries everett.allgood@nyu.edu 212 998 2488