We have used both. The E-serials Holding product does not provide MARC records for your OPAC. IT provides visibility or your holdings in World Cat.

MARC records for you OPAC should be provided by your link resolver provider. When we had Serials Solutions, the records that they provided got the job done. The records provided by the link resolver provider will be only as good as the underlying data provided by the e-resource vendor, as many of the records are machine generated, then later enhanced.

As to which mode is used by our patrons to access our e-resources; that would be an interesting study to undertake. My gut suspicion is that most of our access is from within a database and moving from database to database via the link resolver rather than via an OPAC.

Daniel Hoyte, M.R.S.
Senior Library Systems Technician
Chapman University Leatherby Libraries
(714) 532-7745
hoyte@chapman.edu
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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Shulamis Hes
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:44 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] OCLC's E-Serials Holdings

Has anyone used E-Serials Holdings offered by OCLC?  Can you comment on it, namely how it compares with other MARC record providers such as Serials Solutions?

Thanks.

Shulamis Hes

Electronic Collections Librarian

Yeshiva University

500 West 185th Street, #205

New York, NY  10033

shulamis.hes@yu.edu
212-960-5400, x5753