Hi all,

I am wondering if anyone has gotten any reasonable answers from Gale as to why they cannot provide title-level URLs for their online series. For example, we have Business Plans Handbook volumes 1-17. And we have 17 separate URLs for this title.

Currently, we are using one bibliographic record with a separate 856 field for each volume. This does not scale forward, as you can imagine. We could use Serials Solutions, but they also treat each volume as a separate book record. So we would end up with 17 separate bib records in this case. This is also a problem unless a library decides to limit access to just the current few volumes.

Or I suppose we could link to just the GVRL interface. What are other libraries doing?

Seems like treating these as serials would be much easier in terms of user access. Has anyone heard whether Gale is planning on doing anything about this?

Buddy Pennington

Director of Collections and Access Management

University of Missouri - Kansas City

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