Hello Buddy -

Take a look at the Gale Virtual Reference eBook Subcollection Manager.
You can get to it from your Gale Admin account. I have used it to set
up direct URLs for our Business Plan handbooks and for our
Contemporary Musicians subscription.

Information about this is here:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/facts/Subcollections.pdf.

Anita

Quoting "Pennington, Buddy D." <penningtonb@UMKC.EDU>:

> 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
> 304 Miller Nichols Library
> 800 East 51st Street
> Kansas City, MO  64110
> 816-235-1548
> 816-333-5584 (fax)
>
> UMKC Libraries: Discovery. Knowledge. Empowerment.
>
>

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Anita Foster                    email:akfoste@ilstu.edu
Electronic Resources Librarian  ph: 309-438-3446
Milner Library, Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790

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