We add the symbol, but not an LDR
Carol Morse

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Carol Morse
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Marilyn and others:

It is really funny that you bring this up as I was just about to ask
the same question.

Are libraries generally adding their symbol to OCLC for full-text
e-journals (not those indexed thru aggregators like InfoTrac and
EbscoHost) but the "real" full-text stuff like Project Muse, JSTOR,
ScienceDirect and other publisher sites. We wavered for years about
doing this since we thought it was simply confusing things since we
could not offer ILL service for these titles. However, this is changing.
 Plus, if we do not add our symbol, then students looking in FirstSearch
databases (in particular) have no clue that we might own the right to
access and may ask for document delivery or ILL anyway.

We are now thinking we should pull together a list and make sure we
have them all accounted for officially - and it's possible to do this.

And then the next step is Marilyn's question - we are committed to
maintaining LDR's in OCLC's Union Listing system for print subscriptions
- should we do this for e-journals too?  Who is doing this? Anyone?
What do the Union List people have to say about this?
I have done no investigation to see if there is any commentary about
this and so if there is, I apologize for not being in the loop. We need
to know what the thinking about this is, currently.

Thanks all,
Eleanor Cook
Serials Coordinator
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608-2026
cookei@appstate.edu

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Date:    Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:57:01 -0500
From:    Marilyn Creamer <mcreamer@HAVERFORD.EDU>
Subject: Creating LDR's for Electronic journals

This hasn't been discussed in a while and I was wondering what libraries
are doing in the way of creating, or not creating, LDR's for electronic
journals.  For those libraries who are, do you create them only for
journals whose licenses allow use for ILL?  Do you specify the provider
(publisher/aggregator) in a $n field of the LDR, given the often multiple
856's listing different domains in the OCLC bib record?

We are currently just adding our holdings symbol to the record on OCLC,
but are thinking about the benefits of creating LDR's, and the work flow
involved in choosing the titles to create them for.

Thanks,
Marilyn

Marilyn Creamer
Serials Specialist
Haverford College Library
370 Lancaster Ave
Haverford  PA  19041-1392  USA        ( 610-896-1168        fax:
610-896-1102
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