Re: Bibliographic records for IAC full-text journals (Promilla Bansal) Ann Ercelawn 14 May 1997 16:41 UTC
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 09:44:25 -0500 From: Promilla Bansal <pbansal@ACFSYSV.ROOSEVELT.EDU> Subject: Re: Bibliographic records for IAC full-text journals (Eleanor Cook) As I understand the titles in the Expanded Academic Index are selectively indexed. Is this true or they are completely online thru the Index? > > > One of the libraries in our consortium has subscribed to IAC's > full-text Expanded Academic Index product -- the other two schools in > the consortium are still using the version without the full text, but > we are probably all going to go to it eventually. > In discussing how to show users that they have access to these > journal titles, we came up with a quandry. For titles that are > also held in-house in paper or microform, it is easy enough to add a > note to the holdings that says something like: ALSO AVAILABLE VIA > INFOTRAC. > But, for titles that are only accessible via Infotrac, what to > do about bibliographic records? Our online system (Innopac) requires > a bib record for each title. Usually they come from OCLC. We create > brief bib records for on-order materials that we could not find in > OCLC, and for a limited number of other odd situations. However, the > catalogers do not like the idea of creating hundreds of brief records > for this purpose and it goes against our consortium guidelines anyway. > There are no records in OCLC for these titles - not that we've found, > anyway. Someone is talking to IAC about the possibility of having them > provide records as part of the product, but that is still in the idea > stage, so does us no good now. The only other solution we've come up with > is to download the print version of the record from OCLC and simply use > that with a local note indicating that what is owned is actually the > IAC version. Another option that was totally rejected for > reasons you can understand - creating original records to put in OCLC > - we do not have the staff for this! > So, has anyone else wrestled with this problem and what did you do? > Of course, another option is to do nothing, but we think it would be > useful to point to these titles from the online catalog and so > we want to do something. > > Thanks, > Eleanor Cook > Western North Carolina Library Network (WNCLN) > ********************************************************************* > Eleanor I. Cook 704-262-2786 (wrk) > Serials Specialist 704-262-2773 (fax) > Belk Library > Appalachian State University > Boone, NC 28608 cookei@appstate.edu > ********************************************************************* >