Request for information -- Adolfo R. Tarango Stephen D. Clark 28 Oct 1999 11:23 UTC
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Request for information Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:04:32 -0700 From: Adolfo R Tarango <tarango@admin.unr.edu> Greetings, I am currently working on a chapter regarding access and cataloging of electronic journals. I've based my preliminary draft on how we are providing access and cataloging at UNR with discussion of some other "theoretical" possiblilities. I am now looking to see what others have actually done. I've visited some web sites to get some idea of current practices at other institutions and have found either identical or parallel procedures. I'm sure some one out there has taken a different approach, but its sort of a "needle in the haystack" search given the number of libraries with Web pages. My request is for interested individuals to go to our web site (http://www.library.unr.edu) and compare our handling of electronic journals to their own procedures. If you take the link "Journals--Online and Print" you will see how we have created alphabetical and subject lists for "stand alone" electronic journals and for those available through an aggregator's full text database. If you take the link "Library Catalog (WolfPAC) and preform a "JOURNAL and Newspaper Title" search for the title Harvard heart letter, you will get results representing some "theoretical" possiblilities for providing access to journals in full text databases. If you do a search on the title "Daedalus" you will get an example of a journal to which we subscribe in print and have access through full text databases, a "single record" approach. As to the cataloging of "stand alone" e-journals, we employ the single record approach for titles to which we have print subscriptions--search the titles Journal of computational and applied mathematics, Journal of comparative physiology B, and Journal of computational physics for examples. We fully catalog (or copy catalog) e-journals to which we don't have print versions--search titles ArchitectureSouth and Brain reserach bulletin for examples. You should be able to view the MARC coding by selecting that option from the header options. I am also looking to find institutions that have posted their cataloging procedures for electronic journals on the Web and if they would be willing to let me list them as a reference in this chapter. I appreciate any and all assistance you may be able to provide. Thanks. Adolfo R. Tarango Serials Catalog Librarian The University Library/322 University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV. 89557-0044 775-784-6500 Ext. 263 tarango@unr.edu