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Subject: Request for information
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:04:32 -0700
From: Adolfo R Tarango <tarango@admin.unr.edu>

Greetings,
  I am currently working on a chapter regarding access and cataloging of
electronic journals.  I've based my preliminary draft on how we are
providing access and cataloging at UNR with discussion of some other
"theoretical" possiblilities. I am now looking to see what others have
actually done. I've visited some web sites to get some idea of current
practices at other institutions and have found either identical or
parallel procedures.  I'm sure some one out there has taken a different
approach, but its sort of a "needle in the haystack" search given the
number of libraries with Web pages.
  My request is for interested individuals to go to our web site
(http://www.library.unr.edu) and compare our handling of electronic
journals to their own procedures.  If you take the link
"Journals--Online
and Print" you will see how we have created alphabetical and subject
lists
for "stand alone" electronic journals and for those available through an
aggregator's full text database.  If you take the link "Library Catalog
(WolfPAC) and preform a "JOURNAL and Newspaper Title" search for the
title
Harvard heart letter, you will get results representing some
"theoretical"
possiblilities for providing access to journals in full text databases.
If you do a search on the title "Daedalus" you will get an example of a
journal to which we subscribe in print and have access through full text
databases, a "single record" approach.
  As to the cataloging of "stand alone" e-journals, we employ the single
record approach for titles to which we have print subscriptions--search
the titles Journal of computational and applied mathematics, Journal of
comparative physiology B, and Journal of computational physics for
examples.  We fully catalog (or copy catalog) e-journals to which we
don't
have print versions--search titles ArchitectureSouth and Brain reserach
bulletin for examples.  You should be able to view the MARC coding by
selecting that option from the header options.
  I am also looking to find institutions that have posted their
cataloging
procedures for electronic journals on the Web and if they would be
willing
to let me list them as a reference in this chapter.  I appreciate any
and
all assistance you may be able to provide.  Thanks.

    Adolfo R. Tarango
    Serials Catalog Librarian
    The University Library/322
    University of Nevada, Reno
    Reno, NV.  89557-0044
    775-784-6500  Ext. 263
    tarango@unr.edu