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SUNCAT - towards implementation. Tony Kidd Glasgow University Library [t.kidd@lib.gla.ac.uk]. SUNCAT. Rationale Origins SUNCAT organisation Timetable Methodology. Rationale. User demand - location Humanities/Social Sciences Print collections but also electronic Visits - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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SUNCAT - towards implementation
Tony Kidd
Glasgow University Library
[t.kidd@lib.gla.ac.uk]
UKSG Conference, 7-9 April 2003 - SUNCAT
SUNCAT
Rationale
Origins
SUNCAT organisation
Timetable
Methodology
UKSG Conference, 7-9 April 2003 - SUNCAT
Rationale
User demand - location
– Humanities/Social Sciences– Print collections
but also electronic
– Visits access to collections holdings
– Document delivery
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Rationale
Library demand - record source
– Record quality variations Bibliographic Holdings
– Source(s) for records required– Importance of record exchange– OpenURL ramifications
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Rationale
JOIN-UP [http://www.edina.ac.uk/projects/joinup/index.shtml]
– Seamless access to journals/journal articles Databases Current awareness services - ZETOC
– Xgrain/ZBLSA/Docusend/ZETOC– JISC Information Environment
Research Support Libraries Group [http://www.rslg.ac.uk/]
– February 2003 Final Report– Recommendation
“expedite a national serials catalogue (SUNCAT) to launch state”
Exploitation and rationalisation
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Origins
World List of Scientific Periodicals, 1900-1960
BUCOP – British Union Catalogue of Periodicals, 1955-1980
UKNUC Feasibility Study, 2000-April 2001
– Final report [http://www.uknuc.shef.ac.uk/NUCrep.pdf]
– Serials report [http://www.uknuc.shef.ac.uk/NUCser.pdf]
SUKNUC £880K
SUNCAT scoping study, Spring 2002 [http://www.rslp.ac.uk/circs/2002/suncat.doc]
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Origins
Existing serials catalogues
– COPAC [http://www.copac.ac.uk/]– SALSER
[http://edina.ed.ac.uk/salser/]– University of London Union List of
Serials [http://www.m25lib.ac.uk/ULS/]
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SUNCAT organisation
Invitation to Tender for Provision of a National Serials Union Catalogue, Oct 2002– £700K over two years– JISC + RSLP
Contract awarded Feb 2003
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SUNCAT organisation
ITT Background– “The key users of the SUNCAT catalogue are
expected to be researchers at all levels, inside and outside of UK Higher Education, for whom the catalogue will provide a mechanism for identifying the location of holdings of serials of interest to them held outside their home institution. The catalogue is also expected to have applicability for learning, particularly at undergraduate level but also beyond into the life long learning context. For librarians and contributing libraries SUNCAT will provide a centralised catalogue of high quality bibliographic records for serials held in UK libraries, and a mechanism whereby they can replace their own local records with standardised high quality records obtained from the central database.”
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SUNCAT organisation
EDINA lead partner [http://www.edina.ac.uk/projects/]
Overall leadership/technical input Peter Burnhill, Project Director Leah Halliday, Project Manager
Ex Libris ALEPH 500 California Digital Library
Edinburgh University Library User requirements/liaison Liz Stevenson
‘Associate partners’ National Library of Scotland Glasgow University Library Universities of Oxford/Cambridge
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SUNCAT organisation
Steering Committee– Chair: Derek Law, Strathclyde– JISC– CURL– British Library
Bibliographic Quality Advisory Group– NLS/Cambridge/Oxford/Edinburgh/
Glasgow– Slawek Rozenfeld– 28 March
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Timetable
Phase 1– Feb 2003 – Dec 2004– ‘critical start-up mass of titles’– c20 libraries– ‘Trial service’ followed by ‘Early start
service’ during Phase 1
Phase 2– Jan 2005 – Dec 2006– ‘Full working service’– c200 libraries– Including ‘specialised’ libraries e.g.
learned societies etc
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Timetable
Phase 1 libraries– British Library– National Lib
Scotland– National Lib Wales– Queens Univ
Belfast– Univ Birmingham– Univ Bristol– Univ Cambridge– Univ Durham– Univ Edinburgh– Univ Glasgow
– Imperial College– Univ Leeds– LSE– Univ Manchester– Univ Nottingham– Univ Oxford– Univ Southampton– UCL– Univ Wales, Cardiff– Univ Warwick
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Methodology
Prime record sources
– CONSER – Cooperative Online Serials programme – MARC21 records [http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/]
Library of Congress + c30 members, mostly US National Library of Canada Hong Kong Univ Sci Tech National Library of Wales
– ISSN International Centre [http://www.issn.org/]
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Methodology
Initial additional sources
– National Library of Scotland– University of Cambridge– University of Oxford
SUNCAT will be accessible to all, available as record source for participating libraries
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Methodology
Ex Libris– California Digital Library
[http://www.dbs.cdlib.org/?CSdb=pe]
Load and merge(?) CONSER and ISSN files
Match and add files from Phase 1 libraries– Matching algorithms – ISSN, key title
Updates on batch basis Systems Analysis meeting 10-11
April
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Methodology
Initial concentration on bib records ISSNs, incl titles without ISSNs Holdings records vital, but of mixed
quality… Print and electronic records/holdings
– Electronic access BALSA – OpenURL resolver service
– Rights Evaluation Mechanism Document delivery - Docusend
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Methodology
Holdings statement examples– 1996- 1-
– 1963-1976 23-36
– 40-58, 1967-85
– Notes: Library holds: March 2001- (print), Vol 1, Oct 2000- (electronic)
– Vol.14- , 1992-
– Vols.11-13, 1989-1991.
– 1(1992)-
– 6(1972/73)-
– [1](1984)-3(1985)
– 5 NOS.1-4(1967-70)
– 1985-
– 1(1949)-5(1967)
– 1(1968)-7(1974/77)
– Vol. 8 (1994) to date
– Vol. 13 (1955) to Vol. 30 (1973)
– Numbering Vol.107-111 1985-1989
– Library holds: Winter 1994-
– Numbering 1991
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SUNCAT
• “A keystone in the virtual walls of the digital library for the UK.”
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