Electronic Resources Committee

Meeting Notes

September 24, 2001

Attending: David Block, Nan Hyland, Marty Kurth, Holly Mistlebauer, John Saylor, Scott Wicks.

1. SerialsSolutions. Marty reported on the results of a request for a quote from SerialsSolutions to provide title-level bibliographic data for the e-journals we currently receive in aggregators. SerialsSolutions will charge $1980 for a one-year subscription that provides updated title-level data bimonthly for approximately 14,000 journals in 82 aggregators. The subscription will address the aggregators remaining in the processing queue, including IEEE, Kluwer, Cambridge, and Project Muse. It will also cover other CUL aggregators that ERC has not yet selected for title-level processing, such as Dialog@CARL, Dow Jones, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, LION, POIESIS, and Source OECD. In addition, it will provide regularly updated data for numerous aggregators that we have already cataloged. After reviewing the aggregator list and data samples submitted by SerialsSolutions and then discussing the strengths and weaknesses of their data, ERC concluded that the volume and completeness of the SerialsSolutions data offer good value for the price quoted. We recommended that CUL purchase a subscription for one year as outlined in the quote. We agreed to identify potential funds to use for the purchase and to pursue the steps necessary to secure the funding and place the order. Finally, we agreed to pursue these steps as quickly as possible because of the high level of interest system-wide in providing title-level access to the aggregators remaining in the processing queue. Once SerialsSolutions has delivered the data requested, staff in CTS will use them to focus on the queued aggregators first, generating abbreviated-level MARC records from the data and loading the records into Voyager.

2. ProQuest title-level access. Our ProQuest contact provided us with instructions for using SiteBuilder to create title level URLs for ProQuest titles. The URLs worked when pasted directly into a web browser, but did not work as links from Voyager catalog records. Marty will ask CTS staff to work with our ProQuest contact to enable the catalog-record links. He will report on progress at our next meeting.

Meeting notes by Martin Kurth

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