At MIT, we have not cataloged ScienceDirect (we do not yet have access to
that package), but for other packages the URL we have been adding to the
catalog record is a specific one -- i.e. for the title of the individual
serial and not for the package as a whole.

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Wayne Jones
Head of Serials Cataloging
MIT
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Wayne Jones, Serials Cataloging, MIT Libraries, 14E-210A, (617) 253-4637,
waynej@mit.edu

At 10:42 AM 8/21/98 -0400, Lillian Gassie wrote:
>We have just licensed Elsevier's ScienceDirect, and I am preparing to
>catalog the specific online journals we subscribe to.  My problem is what
>to put as the URL for each title.  I notice that OCLC records have the
>URLs pointing to the ScienceDirect home page, but I would prefer to
>provide direct access to the title.  We get access via IP addresses.  I
>have experimented by copying the URL while at a specific title's webpage
>and putting it in the 856 field.  This has worked so far, but I was told
>by a ScienceDirect tech support person that such URLs are not static and
>likely to change in a few months.
>
>Has anyone else cataloged Elsevier's e-journals and if so, what do you put
>in the 856 field?
>
>Lillian Gassie
>Technical Services Librarian
>Army Research Lab
>Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
>lgassie@arl.mil