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RE: Cataloguing open access

Lotte Jorgensen, I am impressed by the extent of the work you and your
colleagues have been doing. I agree that yours is a viable option, and
may be the best choice especially for a scientific or technical
collection.

There is certainly room to experiment, as no one at all thinks the
existing systems are really satisfactory. In particular, I think I would
agree with you that we need to be talking about an integrated
article/journal system, not just a system at the journal level.

My personal opinion is to go with the catalog supplemented by SFX, but my
reason is mainly that this is the approach I know the best as that's the
system I work with.

Perhaps the details of this belong elsewhere, but I would think that
discussions of the general concepts remain appropriate here, because the
usability of the access system is certainly crucial.

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1]

J�rgensen Lotte wrote:

> In reply to David Goodman I would like to clarify some points regarding
> our system ELIN@ at Lund University Our aim is an integrated
> journal/article system, because we definitely agree that this is
> necessary.  The description I gave of ELIN@ was rather short and may have
> given the wrong impression. It is much more than a journal list. It is
> integrated with our local OPAC with links from one to the other. We are
> planning to add all our paper titles into ELIN@ with holdings and links to
> the OPAC record. We are also adding metadata of non-subscribed titles with
> order options and we are working on integration with the subject based
> bibliographic databases.
>
> Our users are creative and impatient and if we don't serve them for sure
> they will find other ways. With all the interlinking options available
> online it can be argued that one single catalog is if not pointless then
> at least not necessary. You can have different collections in different
> databases and as long as you can cross search them I don't think the users
> care what input format we are using. :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Lotte Jorgensen
> E-mail: lotte.jorgensen@lub.lu.se