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CUL Technical Services Manual

Electronic Serials and other Materials

• What's different about electronic serials?
  • Lack of physical manifestation
  • Location and access ambiguities
  • Additional fields and notes
• Useful tools
  • CONSER Editing Guide/Module 31: Remote Access Computer File Serials
  • Cataloging Internet Resources / Nancy Olsen
  • Guidelines for the use of Field 856
  • Interactive Electronic Serials Cataloging Aid
  • Tools for Serials Catalogers
• Varieties of materials
  • Remotely accessible documents and serials
    • Digitized images
    • ASCII text
    • SGML marked up text
  • Online databases
  • WorldWideWeb resources
    • Individual resources linked to Web pages
    • Home pages and other collections
• Choice of record
  • Separate vs. combined records
    • CONSER Interim Policy on Ejournals
  • Format choices
• Description Issues
  • Chief sources
  • Titles
  • Variant titles
  • Publication area
  • Physical description
  • Notes
    • 516
    • 538
    • Links to other versions/formats
• Coding issues
  • Fixed fields, including 006/007
  • Variable fields
  • 856
• Examples
  • WWW resources
  • ASCII Text Resources distributed via Email

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