ejm - The Hong Kong Baptist University Library Experience on EJournal Management

[YO Li <yoli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In the Hong Kong Baptist University Library, we are very interested in the E-Journal management topic and would like to share our experience on how to resolve the problem . We have recently designed a computer program to automatically generate complete MARC records for all unstable aggregator database journal titles (i.e. Proquest, Ebsco Academic Search Elite, and Lexis Nexis) by combining the vendor title lists and vendor supplied MARC record sets. This program helps us to save a lot of manpower in creating and maintaining unstable ejournal catalog records. For details and algorithm of this computer program, please refer to our article below:

"Computer cataloging of electronic journals in unstable aggregator databases: The Hong Kong Baptist University Library Experience" by Yiu-On Li and Shirley W. Leung, in Library Resources & Technical Services, vol. 45 No. 4 (October 2001): p. 198-211.

You are most welcome to visit our OPAC and EJournal title homepage to browse our ejournal records that are automatically generated by our computer program:

http://hkbulib.hkbu.edu.hk/search~b01a01o01c01i01/
(e.g. to browse the Proqeust database journal titles: http://hkbulib.hkbu.edu.hk/search/t?SEARCH=ProQuest+Databases )


http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/lib/ejours/index.html

Your comment and suggestions to help us to enhance our programs and procedures in creating and maintaining unstable ejournal cataloging records are highly appreciated. 





Best regards,
Y. O. Li

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LI, Yiu On
Assistant Librarian (Systems)
Hong Kong Baptist University Library
Kowloon Tong
Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 3411-7365             Fax: (852) 3411-7372
Email: yoli@xxxxxxxxxx       Website: http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/lib/     
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-----Original Message-----
From:	John Wynstra [SMTP:john.wynstra@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Wednesday, May 29, 2002 4:19 AM
To:	innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject:	ejm - E-journal management

It has been 4 weeks since IUG met in Houston.  During the conference
there were two Birds-of-a-feather sessions related specifically to
managing electronic journals in an Innovative System.  In addition there
are a number of product development enhancements occurring that are
moving towards a good solution to this problem.  

Enough background.  At the BOaF sessions, a number of folks expressed an
interest in continuing this discussion on-line, even setting up a
distribution list specifically for this purpose.  I offered to pursue
this, but have been quite busy since returning.

Enough excuses.  I did ask the steering committee if they would be
willing to host a list for this purpose.  They indicated that they
thought there would be more value to holding this discussion on the
current IUG list since the topic is so relevant to all libraries.  

With that in mind, I propose that we do try to hold this discussion on
this list, but that we use a common subject prefix for all of the
postings so that they are easily retrieved and collated from the
archives.  I suggest that we prefix EJM to the subject heading (e.g.,
Subject: "ejm - perl script" or "Re: ejm - load profile").

Who knows.  There may be less to talk about than we think.  Either way,
I will follow this posting by another post on topic.  



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John Wynstra
Library Information Systems Specialist
Rod Library
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA  50613
wynstra@xxxxxxxxxx
(319)273-3619
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