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SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: January-March 2024

Project-oriented cataloging priorities:

Upcoming New purchases, Transitions, and/or Packages for reconciliation (Contingent Priorities): SCP will process incoming licensed ebooks collections as soon as they are ready. If the metadata in the CZ bib records is minimal every effort will be to provide fuller records from OCLC.

Open access: cataloging requests received

Libros UNAM: Open Access: Requested by a UCB selector. UNAM Open Access Books portal is provided by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and contains over 2000 OA eBooks that academic entities and university departments publish and distribute freely and free of charge. No CZ collection yet. While still evaluating whether to catalog at title level, SCP recommends cataloging as a Local-OA collection at the database level.
The Database of Religious History: Requested by a UCSB selector. The DRH began as one of the flagship initiatives of the Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium (CERC), based at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. No CZ collection yet. SCP recommends cataloging as a Local-OA collection at the database level.
East View East African Newspapers Collection: Part of CRL/East View Global Press Archive (GPA). Requested by a UCSD selector. The collection currently contains 3 newspapers. SCP recommends activating the CZ collection including portfolios of these three titles. Please note, this collection is not an OA collection but a CRL-wide IP collection, ERT will review and confirm about participants for activation. Additionally, CDL ERT will review whether to activate additional CRL GPA collections in NZ.
Central European University Press Open Access Monographs: Requested by a UCB selector. No CZ collection found. Each title has a unique subject, and there are today 41 OA titles. These can be located in Worldcat. All titles are in English language. SCP found most titles are already in other OA collections activated in NZ, e.g. DOAB, JSTOR OA, Project Muse, etc. Recommends only cataloging at the database level.

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng (with comments from UC CKGs), January 9, 2024
Approved by JSC, January 23, 2024

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: July-September 2023

Project-oriented cataloging priorities:

Upcoming New purchases, Transitions, and/or Packages for reconciliation (Contingent Priorities): SCP will process incoming licensed ebooks collections as soon as they are ready. If the metadata in the CZ bib records is minimal every effort will be to provide fuller records from OCLC.

Open access: cataloging requests received

La Rumorosa (title level): Requested by a UCLA selector and UCLA OA metadata librarian. La Rumorosa is a project of the Baja California Government, coordinated by the Baja California Ministry of Culture, to disseminate the work of Mexican writers and promote reading among the population of the state. The collection consists of approximately 50 titles, both fiction and nonfiction, by writers and artists born or based in Baja California, and published during the pandemic during 2020 and 2021. The titles were not only distributed free of charge in print, but many titles are openly available on the state government’s website (and the subject of this request). This OA collection may also complement our shared print agreement with Latin American Studies (CALAFIA) bibliographers to collect North Mexican State Materials: http://web.stanford.edu/~c0y0t8/calafia/northmex.pdf UCLA OA metadata librarian has cataloged online version and will provide OCLC records for the titles so SCP can add into NZ. It’s a one-time cataloging task.
Centro Nacional de Memoria Historica (Colombia) OA Books (title level): Requested by a UCB selector. Centro Nacional de Memoria Historica of Colombia has produced titles related to DEIB and it is important that we catalog each title in the collection. It publishes about 10 titles per year. Currently it has 180 titles. May ask SCP to focus on cataloging 2023-2021 first. Based on SCP initial evaluation, there are about 79 records (most PCC records) in OCLC that SCP can bring to Alma as a local collection, and periodically check availability of the rest titles.

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng (no comments from UC CKGs), July 14, 2023
Approved by JSC, July 14, 2023

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: April-June 2023

Project-oriented cataloging priorities:

Open access: cataloging requests received

ARL Spec Kits (title level): Requested by UCSB. UCSB has title level access to the OA titles in its IZ; the NZ has only collection level access; individual titles for OA would best be managed in the NZ to reduce the number of false ILL requests for patrons at other campuses. SPEC Kits from 2006 through 2018 (SPEC Kit 292–361) are freely available at ARL Digital Publications. They are also available in Alma CZ Collection ID 613790000000000950. SCP can activate and accept catalog records provided by CZ collection.
South Asia Open Archives (SAOA): Requested by a UCLA selector and UCLA OA metadata librarian. The collection contains over thirty thousand (30,000!) digitized print items. These items include newspapers, serials, and journals; colonial reports, censuses, and government documents; works of art, history, and literature; studies in economics, politics, and social structure; reference works, dictionaries, and so much more! Request title level access by activating the CZ Open Community Collections (CDI only): collection ID 615400000000000133.
JSTOR Open Community Collections (CDI activation only): Over the past three years, nearly 300 JSTOR Open Community Collections charter members made more than 1,600 specialized digital collections openly accessible worldwide on JSTOR. Results have gone well beyond on-platform discovery—to date,these collections have garnered more than 3.3 million item requests from 234 countries and territories. UCLA requests to activate this collection which is CDI activation only (See request above for SAOA). SCP can activate the CDI collection.

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng (no comments from UC CKGs), April 14, 2023
Approved by JSC, April 28, 2023

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: October-December 2022

Project-oriented cataloging priorities:

Upcoming New purchases, Transitions, and/or Packages for reconciliation (Contingent Priorities): There are several new packages in the process. SCP will process those ebooks as soon as they are ready. If the metadata in the CZ bib records is minimal, SCP will make efforts to provide fuller records from OCLC contingent on cataloging priorities and staffing.

Open access: cataloging requests received

Asami Collection: Requested to catalog at the title level. The Asami Library with 4,130 volumes of Korean woodblock-printed and movable-type imprints from the Joseon Dynasty (Yi Dynasty). It is requested by UCLA to create a collection for titles within this collection available at https://archive.org/. A Faculty would like to have title/ volume level access to this collection. No match found in the Community Zone. Due to lack of Korean language expertise, SCP will accept title level OCLC records identified and cataloged by UCLA OA metadata librarian which are about 700 titles with about 3000+ URLs at volume level. SCP considers this as one-time cataloging unless further records are identified and supplied by the requester. Thanks to UCLA for the contributions.
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity (BDCC): Requested to catalog at the collection level. An online database containing the essential biographical facts of Chinese and foreign Christian missionaries, church leaders, evangelists, and laity chiefly responsible for laying the foundations and advancing the growth of Chinese Christian communities and their influence in societies around the world. While the database is widely inclusive of time periods and faith traditions, the distinctive focus of the project is on the lesser-known Chinese Christians of the modern era (1800 to 1950). It is requested by UCSD to catalog for the database at the collection level. No match found in the Community Zone.

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, with UC CKGs’ input, October 5, 2022
Approved by JSC, October 14, 2022

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: April-June 2022

Project-oriented cataloging priorities:

Upcoming New purchases, Transitions, and/or Packages for reconciliation (Contingent Priorities): There are several new packages in the process including American Institute of Physics ebooks that had been requested for cataloging. SCP will process those ebooks as soon as they are ready. If the metadata in the CZ bib records is minimal every effort will be to provide fuller records from OCLC.

Open access: cataloging requests received

Open Indiana: requested to catalog individual titles in this collection came from UCLA selector. UCLA cataloged for roughly 160 of the initial titles and these can be added locally if they have not been included in another CDL managed OA collection.

Follow-up: after contacting Indiana University Press and a UCLA cataloger, here are our findings:

- - Open Indiana is a finite collection of 200 titles according to a title list supplied by IUP.
  - Searching in OCLC found all of the titles available in OCLC.
  - No CZ Collection is available for Open Indiana; however, many are included in the “Project MUSE Open Access Books”
  - Using Alma Overlap and Collection Analysis tool found that currently 182 titles matched in PM OA eBooks Collection
  - The access linking and platform for Open Indiana titles are different for the same content in PM OA eBooks Collection
  - If we create/catalog a local collection, we will need to replace CZ bib records in batch for titles matched in PM OA eBook collection, so both access links (PM and OI) will be under one title when searching in UC Library Search

For OA resources, SCP will normally not create a new collection with individual records whenever there is significant overlap with existing collection(s). However, we would like to catalog titles for this collection, given the size, in order for us to be able to determine the impact on discovery and user experience with multiple links. We would also get experience and data to help make policy decisions down the road.

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, with UC CKGs’ input, April 2, 2022
Approved by JSC, May 15, 2022

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: January-March 2022

Project-oriented cataloging priorities:

Upcoming New purchases, Transitions, and/or Packages for reconciliation (Contingent Priorities): There are several new packages in the process including American Institute of Physics ebooks that were requested for cataloging. SCP will catalog them when they are ready and if metadata in CZ bib records are minimal.

Open access: cataloging requests received

While waiting for CDL Acquisitions’ continuing reconciliation for migrated electronic collections and preparing to launch new collections, SCP has some staffing time and would like to focus on cataloging open access resources that are currently not available via the Alma Community Zone in the following order of priorities.

1. Open Access packages/collections that JSC approved last year but haven’t cataloged:

- - World Health Organization (WHO)’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) publications: several subcollections are available in CZ
  - Michigan Asian Studies Open Access Books Collection: CZ collection to activate: 615510000000000016
  - Berlin Studies of the Ancient World (would be local-OA)
2. Open Access packages only requires database level cataloging:
- - Russian Digital Dissertation Library of the Russian State Library: requested by UCLA. The collection has ~3,000 OA dissertations available
  - University of Chicago Oriental Institute publications: requested by a UCSB bibliographer who would like to cancel its print order. Would like to see at least a DB level record and link to the page with all the volumes.

3. Open Access packages not available via the Alma Community Zone: will need to explore the workflow, such as evaluate the title level records and overlap contents with other existing activated OA collections, and how to catalog and bring records, etc.)

University of Chicago Oriental Institute publications: has OCLC records for title level, can be a good candidate for title level catalog.
APress (Springer Link) Open Access e-books: requested by a UCSD bibliographer We have records already, but with a spot check, some indicate restricted access to UC’s when in fact these are OA. (will need to check whether titles overlap with the SpringerLink Open Access eBooks: Collection ID: 61419666630006531)
Metropolitan Museum of Art online publications: requested by a UCSD bibliographer. Very important art publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, about 3,804 records. As we are now working in a digital environment, making these publications discoverable alongside our print equivalents is extremely helpful to our users.

For open access packages available via the Alma Community Zone (CZ Coll. ID listed on the request page): instead of holding off till OA TF final recommendation, would like to go by OA task force principle “OA resources selected by one campus should be made available for the discovery tools of all campuses” to at least activate them (Listed in the order they are requested)

Open Research Library (Open Access): requested by UCSD. The collection seems to be an aggregator of 20,000 OA ebooks. Some we have cataloged but many we do not, especially those that are in non-English languages.
Three sub-collections of CRL Global Press Archive: requested by UCLA colleagues

- - Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers (requested by UCLA Chinese studies librarian)
  - Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers
  - Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers

CEPAL Publications (the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); the Spanish acronym, CEPAL): requested by a UCB bibliographer .UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); the Spanish acronym, CEPAL has over 4000 academic level monographs in English, Spanish and Portuguese. These also deal with the Caribbean and Latin American in the context of sociology, political sciences.
Four sub-collections of National Gallery of Art: requested by UCSB
- National Gallery of Art Publications
- National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogs
- National Gallery of Art Exhibition Brochures
- National Gallery of Art Online Editions
Cairn Open Access Journals: requested by UCSB. Requesting activation of the CZ collection in NZ, with its default to add portfolios automatically, full marc records are not necessary.
Getty Publication Virtual Library (SCP cataloged records in CDL IZ)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (SCP cataloged records in CDL IZ) –will use it to test CDI activation in Sandbox

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, with UC CKGs’ input, December 21, 2021
Approved by JSC, January 5, 2022

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: January-March 2021

Project-oriented cataloging priorities:

Upcoming New purchases, Transitions, and/or Packages for reconciliation (Contingent Priorities): Cataloging new resources or packages signed by CDL or tier 2 will be top priority as part of CDL new resources launching process as well as managing any potential transitions generated by outcome of license renewal, vendor’s platform changes, etc. Routine cataloging or other project priorities may get bumped down in response to new acquisitions and/or changes in other packages.

OA Collections requested for cataloging:

Berlin Studies of the Ancient World (currently not in the Alma CZ), requested by a UCB bibliographer, this book series currently includes about 45 ebooks with subjects ranging from philosophy to archeology, from the history of science to physical geography. MARC records are available for a lot of titles and can be cataloged and distributed once approved by JSC.
University of Michigan Press Open Access Books Collection (the collection is currently in the Alma CZ as UMPEBC University of Michigan Press eBooks Open Access and in CDI), requested by a UCSB bibliographer, on a subset of 100 titles funded by National Endowment for the Humanities which have many titles focusing on Asian studies, not all titles listed in the Alma CZ collection yet. MARC records are available for a lot of titles and can be cataloged and distributed once approved by JSC.

SILS Phase 4 Test Load:

SCP has wrapped up the SILS Vanguard test. We were able to identify areas for further data cleanup. We were able to identify unique SCP records that are not duplicated to CDL SFX/360 ERM data load into the Alma Network Zone (NZ), about 42% and nearly 487,000 records to migrate to the NZ. The rest will continue to migrate to the siloed CDL Institution Zone (IZ). We also evaluated general options on how to get SCP new and legacy data importing into the Alma NZ from CDL IZ or from OCLC. SCP is also responsible for getting 179,000 MARCIVE records for government documents into the Alma NZ.

SCP has started the SILS test load period, during this test period, SCP staff will evaluate SCP data in coordination with CDL ERT-SILS team and the SILS PPC CDL Data-in-NZ Team on:
- Data migration. Identifies areas where strategies need to be modified for a better result for the final cutover load.
- Workflow. Continue to evaluate and develop workflows for new and ongoing contents in detail for transforming our daily work routines. Look at tasks that we haven’t had time during the Vanguard test, such as managing DDA records, statistics and reports using Alma Analytic tools, etc. Determine the best strategies of using the least amount time for post-migration cleanup for SCP data that have the least negative impact on overall SILS data migration.
- Priorities. Evaluate and recommend priorities among post migration cleanup, cataloging new packages, new contents of ongoing packages, bringing legacy data into NZ for CKGs’ input and JSC’s decision.
Several staff has involved in the SILS Project Phase 4 with over 30% time commitment, Kate Garvey-Clasby serves on the SILS Data Cleanup Task Group representing SCP; Shi Deng serves on the SILS Resource Management Functional Group; both Kate and Shi serves on the SILS PPC CDL data-in-NZ group, CDL SILS team, CDL E-Resource Team-SILS group; Donal serves on the CDL E-Resource Team-SILS group and focuses on SCP workflows in Vanguard environment for new and legacy data; it’s very challenging for SCP staff to participate in so many weekly Zoom meetings for decision-making while managing routine cataloging.

Thank you for your patience and understanding during this time. Routine cataloging by SCP may be delayed due to the SILS migration, cataloging of new acquisitions, and reduced capacity due to the COVID-19 work from home recommendation. If a package is delayed over three months, or you have concerns regarding access to CDL content, please report to the CDL Helpline.

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng with UC CKGs’ input, January 4, 2021
Approved by JSC, January 11, 2021

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: October-December 2020

Project-oriented cataloging priorities:

Upcoming New purchases, Transitions, and/or Packages for reconciliation (Contingent Priorities): Cataloging new resources or packages signed by CDL or tier 2 will be top priority as part of CDL new resources launching process as well as managing any potential transitions generated by outcome of license renewal, vendor’s platform changes, etc. Routine cataloging or other project priorities may get bumped down in response to new acquisitions and/or changes in other packages.

OA Collections requested for cataloging:

Taylor & Francis Open Access books, two requests received for this same list of 600+ titles (available and forthcoming) by UCHLS co-convener and UCR librarian for PSE CKG. “some as part of CRC when they are totally open while the Routledge soci sci and humanities titles that are OA have discovery recs for UCSD as we have EBA.” “These are high value, and cataloging them centrally will prevent purchasing materials that are already available to us. Right now, ebook use is unusually high even for the older titles. I have attached the list, though we [UCR] will have some of these from the CRC package.”
Getty Publications Virtual Library, over 300 monographs in art and architecture and these are “standard sources often used by students as part of course research projects”; the request is submitted on behalf of all members of the Art & Architecture CKG to meet the need to support remote learning. MARC records are available and can be distributed once approved by JSC.
World Health Organization (WHO)’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) publications, about 360+ titles of mixed monographs and serials in 8 monographic series, requested by UCSF who had collected the collections in print before they become available open access resources; MARC records available sporadically. There are HathiTrust records for some of the older contents, few records for new contents. Cataloging starts once approved by JSC.

Serials Transition Phase II switching MARC records from print to online: started September 1, 2019, SCP has been working on package by package, see details here. So far 93% of print records (41,000+) have switched to online records. SCP plans to finish the remaining 2,540 records this quarter unless other higher priority tasks take precedence, see SCP Cataloging Priorities.

Participation in SILS Phase 4 Vanguard Testing:

SCP records were decided not to load into the Alma Network Zone due to potential large percent (90%+) duplicate records of SFX and 360 ERM data load and potential negative impact on overall Vanguard Network environment for data, workflow, and discovery experience. SCP data has been loaded into a silo Institution Zone and not connected to the UCS Network Zone.
During this test period, SCP staff will evaluate SCP data in coordination with CDL ERT-SILS team and the SILS PPC CDL Data-in-NZ Team on:
- Data migration. Identifies areas where strategies need to be modified for a better result during test load and cutover load.
- Local collections. Identify any collections that title level records are lacking in Alma Community Zone, and determine if they can be migrated to Alma Network Zone during test load and cutover load.
- Workflow. Evaluate and develop workflows for new and ongoing contents as well as how to get legacy SCP data import into Alma Network Zone. Determine the best strategies of using the least amount time for post-migration cleanup for SCP data that have the least negative impact on overall SILS data migration.
Several staff has involved in the SILS Project Phase 4 with over 30% time commitment, Kate Garvey-Clasby serves on the SILS Data Cleanup Task Group representing SCP; Shi Deng serves on the SILS Resource Management Functional Group; both Kate and Shi serves on the SILS PPC CDL data-in-NZ group, CDL SILS team, CDL E-Resource Team-SILS group; Donal serves on the CDL E-Resource Team-SILS group and focuses on SCP workflows in Vanguard environment for new and legacy data; it’s very challenging for SCP staff to participate in so many weekly Zoom meetings for decision-making while managing routine cataloging.

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng with UC CKGs’ input, September 28, 2020
Approved by JSC, October 5, 2020

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: July-September 2020

Project-oriented cataloging priorities:

Upcoming New purchases, Transitions, and/or Packages for reconciliation (Contingent Priorities): Cataloging new packages signed by CDL (such as adding Project Muse and UC Press titles and remove records for JSTOR DDA II unpurchased titles) and/or managing any potential transitions generated by outcome of license renewal, vendor’s platform changes, etc. Also reconciliation for titles in CRCNet is in the pipeline.

Serials Transition Phase II switching MARC records from print to online: started September 1, 2019, SCP has been working on package by package, see details here. So far 80% of print records (33,100+) have switched to online records. The project may get delayed due to time needed for SILS Vanguard migration and testing, and/or when new packages and/or packages with transitional changes receive higher priorities, see SCP Cataloging Priorities.

Participation in SILS Phase 4 Data Cleanup Project:

Kate Garvey-Clasby serves on the SILS Data Cleanup Task Group representing SCP, estimated about average 30% time on the SILS project. However, extra time will be needed for Kate to prepare SCP Vanguard migration files and testing.
Some staff time may need to focus on preparation for SILS implementation, such as data cleanup and Vanguard testing.
SCP as part of CDL is participating in Vanguard migration testing in between May and November. Due to staffing time needed to prepare the Vanguard migration, routine ongoing cataloging for some collections may be delayed. The delay varies among SCP catalogers. SCP asks for the flexibility to balance between time devoted to cataloging and the SILS project. Catalogers will keep track and balance on cataloging collections they are responsible for, and may also increase intervals of cataloging frequency temporarily.

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: April-June 2020

Project-oriented cataloging priorities:

Upcoming New purchases, Transitions, and/or Packages for reconciliation (Contingent Priorities): Cataloging new packages signed by CDL (such as add O’Reilly Higher Education 46,000+ and remove Safari titles) and/or managing any potential transitions generated by outcome of license renewal, vendor’s platform changes, etc. Also reconciliation for titles in CRCNet and Wiley (respectively) are in the pipeline.

OA collection level record cataloging:

● Treasures of the Book Archive: There are 270 ebooks digitized by De Gruyter to celebrate 270 year of publishing history. This should be a static collection (until they celebrate 280 years of publishing history). Cataloging this open access collection is requested by UCSD. Based on the title list provided by the bibliographer, SCP is able to find records in OCLC for most of titles. SCP recommends to create a collection level record and batch catalog individual titles within the collection in 2020Q2.

Serials Transition Phase II switching MARC records from print to online: started September 1, 2019, SCP has been working on package by package, see details about the project here. The project may get delayed as new packages and/or packages with transitional changes receive higher priorities, see SCP Cataloging Priorities.

Participation in SILS Phase 4 Data Cleanup Project:

● Some staff time may need to focus on preparation for SILS implementation, such as data cleanup.

● Kate Garvey-Clasby serves on the SILS Data Cleanup Task Group representing SCP.

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: January-March 2020

Project-oriented cataloging priorities:

OA title level records cataloging: Requested from campuses, although every OA collection will face the same overlapping difficulties no matter the size of the collection, SCP staff will work on cataloging strategies

Publications of the Scottish History Society: Requested by UCLA. The collection has six sets of monographic series with a wide range of subjects, and all issues have unique titles, about 180 titles for initial cataloging.
Project Muse OA titles: Requested by UCSD. The collection includes open access humanities and social science books available on Project Muse platform, all from distinguished scholarly presses and organizations. There are about 1,783 monographs and 5 journals on the current title list. The requester “found enough titles that are not cataloged at UC San Diego that it seems worth doing this as a project”
University of Michigan Press open access books: Requested by UCSD. The collection currently has 132 University of Michigan Press eBooks. It is about 20 or fewer titles added each year. It would be useful to have cataloged at the monograph level so that users can find them and librarians do not inadvertently buy on another platform.

Serials Transition Phase II switching MARC records from print to online: started September 1, 2019, SCP has been working on package by package, see details here. The project may be delayed as new packages and/or packages with transitional changes receive higher priorities, see SCP Cataloging Priorities. Packages have been already transitioned as Dec. 3, 2019:

Literature online (LION)
JSTOR
Periodicals Archive online
Project Muse

Participation in SILS Phase 3 &4 Working Groups:

● Donal O’Sullivan serves on the Cataloging and Metadata Expertise Group representing SCP starting September 11, 2018

● Kate Garvey-Clasby serves on the SILS Data Cleanup Task Group representing SCP.

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: October-December 2019

Project-oriented cataloging priorities:

End of year new acquisitions: This year CDL has several end of year new acquisitions, such as Sabin, Cambridge journal archive, CINAHL Complete, etc. The cataloging of titles in these new packages may last into the 4th quarter depending the availability and/or quality of cataloging records. For example, for the Sabin collection, there are about 675+ titles are in latest entry records which will need to be changed. The serial cataloger is working with Gale metadata specialist to re-catalog these titles.

Managing workload generated by any transitions: There are a few upcoming transitions for CDL licensed resources such as vendor’s platform changes, etc.

Serials Transition Phase II switching MARC records from print to online: starting September 1, SCP will work on package by package, see details here. The project may get delayed as new packages and/or packages with transitional changes gets higher priorities, see SCP Cataloging Priorities.

Participation in SILS Phase 3 Expertise Group:

● Donal O’Sullivan serves on the Cataloging and Metadata Expertise Group representing SCP starting September 11, 2018

● Kate Garvey-Clasby serves on the SILS Data Cleanup Task Group representing SCP.

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: July-September 2019

Project-oriented cataloging priorities:

Upcoming new purchases and transitions: Cataloging new packages signedby CDL and/or managing any potential transitions generated by license renewal, platform changes, etc.

Implementation of Separate Record Approach for Serial Records: Continue implementation of phase I using online records for all new incoming titles. Starting to work with campuses on planning Phase II retrospective changing for existing titles on print records. SCP will keep campuses posted.

OA title level records cataloging: Initial evaluation found some title level records available via OCLC.

Wildenstein Plattner Institute Publications: Requested by UCSD. These are seminal art publications, many out of print, on well-known artists. Currently about 50 titles of monographs.

Participation in SILS Phase 3 Expertise Group:

Donal O’Sullivan serves on the Cataloging and Metadata Expertise Group representing SCP since September 11, 2018, expected to commit 4 hours per week for about six months. SCP staff will share workload to cover duties.
Kate Garvey-Clasby serves on SILS Data Cleanup Task Force

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: April-June 2019

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

Upcoming new purchases and transitions
Implementation of Separate Record Approach for Serial Records
Change in SCP cataloging
Participation in SILS Phase 3 Expertise Group

Upcoming new purchases and transitions:

Cataloging new packages signed by CDL and/or managing any potential transitions generated by license renewal, platform changes, etc.

Implementation of Separate Record Approach for Serial Records:

After several months of discussion, the SCP Advisory Committee voted to cease the practice of single record approach, i.e., using print record wheneverpossible for SCP online serial records. This change was proposed because using print records at campuses with discovery facet feature will only display print records, which does not reflect actual holdings of CDL online resources. As of April 1, SCP begins using online records for all new incoming titles. Retrospective changes for existing title on print records will be implemented next. This will cause some procedural changes. SCP will keep campuses posted.

Change in SCP cataloging:

Triggered by the implementation of Separate Record Approach and in anticipation of SILS migration, SCP and UCSD jointly decided that SCP wouldcease to add a copy for UCSD when cataloging SCP titles. As of April 1, UCSD begins receiving and processing the SCP file like other campuses. This will cause many procedural changes.

Participation in SILS Phase 3 Expertise Group:

Donal O’Sullivan has been serving on the Cataloging and Metadata Expertise Group representing SCP since September 11, 2018, expectedto commit 4 hours per week for about six months. SCP staff will share workload to cover duties.
All SCP staff participate in the CDL will review and provide input on requirements prepared by the SILS Phase 3 Expertise Group. Kate Garvey-Clasby also serves on the UCSD local group to provide feedback.

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: January-March 2019

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

Upcoming new purchases and transitions
Participation in SILS Phase 3 Expertise Group
OA database level records cataloging
OA title level records cataloging

Upcoming new purchases and transitions:

Cataloging new packages signed by CDL and/or managing any potential transitions generated by vendor’s platform changes, etc. Potential packages include individual title level access to the Contemporary Women’s Issues, …

Participation in SILS Phase 3 Expertise Group:

Donal O’Sullivan serves on the Cataloging and Metadata Expertise Group representing SCP starting September 11, 2018, expected to commit average 4 hours per week (10% of FTE) for about six months. SCP staff will shift and share some workload to manage the change.
All SCP staff participate in CDL review and input on requirements SILS Phase 3 Expertise Group prepared. Kate Garvey-Clasby also serves on the UCSD local group to provide feedback

OA database level records cataloging:

Providing database level cataloging for OA database requested by campuses. Individual title level cataloging may be revisited when time permit and OCLC records become available:

Merlot Open Textbook titles: Requested by campus. 6520 open texts available. Some in Melvyl already via DOAB and others. SCP recommends database-level cataloging – not enough records in OCLC not to mention many duplicates of what is there.
Medieval England and France, 700-1200: Requested by campus. The collection of 800 digitized manuscripts is curated selection explores medieval manuscripts that were digitized as part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700–1200.

OA title level records cataloging:

Initial evaluation found some title level records available via OCLC.

IOS Press Open Access Ebooks: Requested by campus. Because these Ebooks are not currently cataloged, folks are requesting them via Inter Library Borrowing, and selectors are buying the books individually. IOS Press is a known STEM publisher. It would be great to get all their open access titles into the catalog.

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, December 3, 2018
Approved by JSC, January 14, 2019

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: October-December 2018

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

Participation in SILS Phase 3 Expertise Group
OA database level records cataloging

For details of campus cataloging requests, please check here.

Participation in SILS Phase 3 Expertise Group:

OA database level records cataloging:

Providing database level cataloging for OA database requested by campuses. Individual title level cataloging may be revisited when time permit and OCLC records become available:

El Centro Estratégico Latinoamericano de Geopolítica (CELAG) E-books: Requested by UCB and including open access monographs and serials. Currently no record available in OCLC for either database level or title level. Description provided by the bibliographer: “The CELAG E-books collection represent an important OA e-books collection that is dedicated to the social, environmental, political and economic issues within Latin America. The Latin American Geopolitical Strategic Center (CELAG) is an institution dedicated to the investigation, study and analysis of the political, economic and social phenomena of Latin America, whose objective is to elaborate knowledge and instruments for decision makers of public policies, electoral strategies.”
http://www.celag.org/libros-y-publicaciones/
SEDICI Repository-National University of La Plata: Requested by UCB, currently 884 ebooks, among them, 650 published in 2010-2018. Currently no record available in OCLC for either database level or title level.
http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/discover?filtertype=type&filter_relational_operator=equals&filter=Libro&sort_by=dc.date.accessioned_dt&order=desc
Repositório Institucional UNESP (UNESP Institutional Repository): Requested by UCB, currently 457 titles, ongoing about 50 titles per year. Currently no record available in OCLC for either database level or title level. Description provided by the bibliographer: “In light of the shared collection development, many of the academic research level Brazilian books that are on the market today are either published first as either the OA books or developed from the dissertations. These books should be cataloged so that we can avoid duplicate expenditures on systemwide basis. In light of new budgetary normal, we look forward to the CDL’s leadership on making this possible for all campuses and UC Berkeley’s leadership has supported the OA resources.”
https://repositorio.unesp.br/discover?filtertype=type&filter_relational_operator=equals&filter=Livro

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, September 24, 2018
Approved by JSC, October 8, 2018

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: July-September 2018

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

Review packages status
Add SCP records to OCLC for Chinese DDA titles
OA database level records cataloging
OA title level records cataloging

For details of campus cataloging requests, please check here.

Review packages status:

Recent inquiries from bibliographers on the cataloging status of several packages lead to this project. Among about 200 on-going eBook collections/packages SCP manages, titles from some packages are not always updated regularly by the providers. There are some considerations as to why new titles for these packages are not cataloged immediately, 1) new titles were not posted when a cataloger checked quarterly, 2) titles might not be on the list when it was pulled for cataloging, 3) records might not be available in OCLC when batch searched. Meanwhile, we will review all eBook packages with titles becoming available less frequently to determine if we can develop better strategies to manage them.

Add SCP records to OCLC for Chinese DDA titles:

Vendor-provided Chinese DDA discovery records have been loaded only to local system and not added to OCLC. SCP’s recent exploration with OCLC DataSync service provides the possibility for SCP to add Chinese DDA records to OCLC for both CNPeReading DDA and Airiti DDA collections. It will reduce the workload of record maintenance significantly.

OA database level records cataloging:

Providing database level cataloging for OA database requested by campuses. Individual title level cataloging may be revisited when time permit and OCLC records become available:

Bibliotheca Palatina digital: requested by UCSD. This is the virtual recreation of the BP Library of illuminated manuscripts that was looted and moved to the Vatican Library during the Thirty Years War. The collection is about 3,000 titles
Clay Mathematics Institute ebooks: requested by UCSD to catalog the 25 titles available for free from CMI (5 monos and 19 conf proceedings and 1 special edition) so that mathematicians and students may better find these. The collection is not considered as ongoing collection. They publish every few years maybe 1 or 2 titles, so not worth checking by SCP. SCP would catalog any new title that shows up in subsequent years by requests.
Courtauld Books Online: requested by UCSB. Courtauld Books Online is an open access scholarly book series. Including research publications from scholars in art history, these books are available to read online or download. Titles in this collection would require original cataloging
Museum of Modern Art Exhibitions Project: requested by UCSB. 900 digitized exhibition catalogs from the Museum of Modern Art. There MARC records available for download. In addition, there are checklists, press releases, and installation photographs.
Canadian Online Art Book Project: requested by UCSD. A collection of online art exhibition catalogues.
Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative: requested by UCSD. A collection of online art exhibition catalogues.

OA title level records cataloging: Initial evaluation found some title level records available via OCLC.

MetPublications: requested by UCSB. A collection over 1500 titles, both serials and monographs, from the Met’s publishing history, available online, for free. Being able to read online and also download, having access to these in our catalogs will broaden access. SCP found records in OCLC WorldShare KB under MetPublications.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ebook project: requested by UCSD. SCP found about 180 records are available

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: April-June 2018

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

Cataloging Upcoming new purchases and transitions .
OA E-books from Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance
OA database level records cataloging
eScholarship monographs collection
UCSD Sierra Implementation

Project-oriented Chinese cataloging priorities

Chinese periodical full-text database
China economy, public policy, and security database (Pi shu)

Upcoming new purchases and transitions: Cataloging any potential new packages signed by CDL and/or managing any potential transitions generated by vendor’s platform changes and converting HTTP to HTTPS.

OA E-books from Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance: requested by a local campus, this collection currently has about 40 titles of open access monographs. Although lacking language expertise in Cyrillic languages, SCP staff was able to identify OCLC records for about 16 titles. If approved by JSC, these records can be cataloged and distributed to campuses. The rest of titles will only be cataloged and distributed when records become available.

Open Access database level cataloging requests: SCP received cataloging requests for several other Open Access databases, they are:

Newspapers of the Historical State Library of Russia, about 1,200 titles
E-books of the State Museum of Fine Arts Of the Republic of Tatarstan, about 30 titles
Bibliotheca Palatina digital, about 3,000 titles, This is the virtual recreation of the BP Library of illuminated manuscripts that was looted and moved to the Vatican Library during the Thirty Years War.
Musil Online, a database of collections of Musil’s works, archive, and commentary.

So far these collections can be cataloged at the database level. SCP has called for volunteer to help with first two collection in Cyrillic languages, Peter Fletcher (UCLA) volunteered to work with us; details still need to be worked out as to whether it can actually be cataloged or not. For Bibliotheca Palatina digital, currently lack title list and still waiting to hear back from Vatican Library. Until ways and means identified for title-level cataloging, SCP would like to request JSC’s approval for database level cataloging for these collections.

eScholarship monographs collection: requested by local campus, currently near 1,500 titles. SCP will work with CDL eScholarship staff to evaluate and develop strategy to get this collection cataloged.

UCSD Sierra Implementation: UCSD formed a Sierra Implementation Coordinators & Trainers Team on Dec. 8, 2017. Kate Garvey-Clasby represents SCP to serve on the team. She will work with Donal O’Sullivan closely in preparation for the system migration, Sierra implementation and training focusing on SCP side of operations. This means that some routine tasks of Kate and Donal’s will be impacted.

Chinese periodical full-text database (25,000 titles) and Late Qing dynasty periodical full text database (300 titles): Vendor has sent us the title key, an important data element for identifying titles and is working on providing more detailed holdings info and basic Pinyin conversion. Bie-hwa will be focused on preparing the title list and MARC records. Will try to use OCLC DataSync to batch add MARC records to OCLC. If DataSync does not work well with old Chinese serials, SCP will still primarily apply SCP Phased Cataloging Strategies (strategy 2 phase 1) in the following order: step 1) develop search strategies to identify titles lacking OCLC records and batch create level 3/K OCLC records for these titles; step 2) upon completion of step 1, evaluate and develop workflow to review and process titles matched in OCLC. It will be a great challenge and may take a long time to identify and match the right records in OCLC due to false hits and/or duplicate records found in OCLC, poor quality of vendor provided metadata, etc.

China economy, public policy, and security database (Pi shu): Finish up cataloging this package.

Two thirds of the 519 records will be distributed by the end of March. The remaining 100+ records mostly require original cataloging which are expected to be ready for done in April. Rush Cataloging was requested by three local campuses in order to increase the discoverability and usage of titles in this database. A collection of high-value analytical reports intended to guide policy-making in the People’s Republic of China. These reports feature exclusive research and analysis by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and authors from similar institutions, and present objective analysis versus official government messaging on strategic issues. Titles are core research materials for contemporary China studies at UCSD, UCLA and UCB.

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, March 5, 2017
Approved by JSC, April 13, 2018

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: January-March 2018

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

Cataloging Upcoming new purchases and transitions .
OA E-books from Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance
OA database level records cataloging
eScholarship monographs collection
UCSD Sierra Implementation
Project-oriented Chinese cataloging priorities

Chinese periodical full-text database
China economy, public policy, and security database (Pi shu)
Upcoming new purchases and transitions: Cataloging any potential new packages signed by CDL and/or managing any potential transitions generated by vendor’s platform changes and converting HTTP to HTTPS.

OA E-books from Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance: requested by a local campus, this collection currently has about 40 titles of open access monographs. Although lacking language expertise in Cyrillic languages, SCP staff was able to identify OCLC records for about 16 titles. If approved by JSC, these records can be cataloged and distributed to campuses. The rest of titles will only be cataloged and distributed when records become available.

Open Access database level cataloging requests: SCP received cataloging requests for several other Open Access databases, they are:

Newspapers of the Historical State Library of Russia, about 1,200 titles
E-books of the State Museum of Fine Arts Of the Republic of Tatarstan, about 30 titles
Bibliotheca Palatina digital, about 3,000 titles, This is the virtual recreation of the BP Library of illuminated manuscripts that was looted and moved to the Vatican Library during the Thirty Years War.
Musil Online, a database of collections of Musil’s works, archive, and commentary.
So far these collections can be cataloged at the database level. SCP has called for volunteer to help with first two collection in Cyrillic languages, Peter Fletcher (UCLA) volunteered to work with us; details still need to be worked out as to whether it can actually be cataloged or not. For Bibliotheca Palatina digital, currently lack title list and still waiting to hear back from Vatican Library. Until ways and means identified for title-level cataloging, SCP would like to request JSC’s approval for database level cataloging for these collections.

eScholarship monographs collection: requested by local campus, currently near 1,500 titles. SCP will work with CDL eScholarship staff to evaluate and develop strategy to get this collection cataloged.

UCSD Sierra Implementation: UCSD formed a Sierra Implementation Coordinators & Trainers Team on Dec. 8, 2017. Kate Garvey-Clasby represents SCP to serve on the team. She will work with Donal O’Sullivan closely in preparation for the system migration, Sierra implementation and training focusing on SCP side of operations. This means that some routine tasks of Kate and Donal’s will be impacted.

Chinese periodical full-text database (25,000 titles) and Late Qing dynasty periodical full text database (300 titles): Vendor has sent us the title key, an important data element for identifying titles and is working on providing more detailed holdings info and basic Pinyin conversion. Bie-hwa will be focused on preparing the title list and MARC records. Will try to use OCLC DataSync to batch add MARC records to OCLC. If DataSync does not work well with old Chinese serials, SCP will still primarily apply SCP Phased Cataloging Strategies (strategy 2 phase 1) in the following order: step 1) develop search strategies to identify titles lacking OCLC records and batch create level 3/K OCLC records for these titles; step 2) upon completion of step 1, evaluate and develop workflow to review and process titles matched in OCLC. It will be a great challenge and may take a long time to identify and match the right records in OCLC due to false hits and/or duplicate records found in OCLC, poor quality of vendor provided metadata, etc.

China economy, public policy, and security database (Pi shu): Finish up cataloging this package.
Two thirds of the 519 records will be distributed by the end of March. The remaining 100+ records mostly require original cataloging which are expected to be ready for done in April. Rush Cataloging was requested by three local campuses in order to increase the discoverability and usage of titles in this database. A collection of high-value analytical reports intended to guide policy-making in the People’s Republic of China. These reports feature exclusive research and analysis by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and authors from similar institutions, and present objective analysis versus official government messaging on strategic issues. Titles are core research materials for contemporary China studies at UCSD, UCLA and UCB.

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, March 5, 2017
Approved by JSC, April 13, 2018

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: January-March 2018

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

Cataloging Upcoming new purchases and transitions .
Humanities Open Book
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
UCSD Sierra Implementation
Update SCP document CDL Conventions for Cataloging Electronic Resources

Project-oriented Chinese cataloging priorities

China economy, public policy, and security database (Pi shu)
Chinese periodical full-text database

Upcoming new purchases and transitions: Cataloging any potential new packages signed by CDL and/or managing any potential transitions generated by vendor’s platform changes and converting HTTP to HTTPS.Such as the project of preparing changing platform from Lexis/Nexis to Nexis Uni, this project involves removing titles that are no longer available under Nexis Uni and adding new titles.

Humanities Open Book: Cataloging requested by a local campus, this collection contains select out-of-print editions for republishing as open access ebooks. This is expected to be a growing collection.

Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Requested by a local campus, this collection contains about 80 open access journal titles, some of which were already cataloged by SCP. We were able to quickly ascertain that most of the remaining have good CONSER records. Some overlap with outdated Dialnet via SFX which may also need to be reviewed and cleanup.

UCSD Sierra Implementation: UCSD formed a Sierra Implementation Coordinators & Trainers Team on Dec. 8, 2017. Kate Garvey-Clasby represents SCP to serve on the team. She will work with Donal O’Sullivan closely in preparation for the system migration, Sierra implementation and training focusing on SCP side of operations. This means that some routine tasks of Kate and Donal’s will be impacted.

Update SCP document CDL Conventions for Cataloging Electronic Resources: This document was last updated in September 2009. This update process will bring the document align to RDA, current cataloging standard.

China economy, public policy, and security database (Pi shu): Cataloging requested by three local campuses in order to increase the discoverability of titles in this database. A collection of high-value analytical reports intended to guide policymaking in the People’s Republic of China. These reports feature exclusive research and analysis by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and authors from similar institutions, and present objective analysis versus official government messaging on strategic issues. Titles are core research materials for contemporary China studies at UCSD, UCLA and UCB.

Chinese periodical full-text database (25,000 titles) and Late Qing dynasty periodical full text database (300 titles): Slowly making progress. Vendor agreed to supply title key, an important data element for identifying titles, more works needed before the cataloging process start. Primarily apply SCP Phased Cataloging Strategies (strategy 2 phase 1) in the following order: step 1) develop search strategies to identify titles lacking OCLC records and batch create level 3/K OCLC records for these titles; step 2) upon completion of step 1, evaluate and develop workflow to review and process titles matched in OCLC. It will be a great challenge and may take a long time to identify and match the right records in OCLC due to false hits and/or duplicate records found in OCLC, poor quality of vendor provided metadata, etc.

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, December 7, 2017
Approved by JSC, January 18, 2018

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: October-December 2017

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

Upcoming new purchases and transitions
JSTOR Open Access e-books
Australian National Library Press

Project-oriented Chinese cataloging priorities

China economy, public policy, and security database (Pi shu)
Chinese periodical full-text database

Upcoming new purchases and transitions: Cataloging any potential new packages signed by CDL and/or managing any potential transitions generated by vendor converting HTTP to HTTPS.

JSTOR Open Access E-books: JSTOR recently add about 1,200 Open Access e-books. Given JSTOR is one of OA e-book collections SCP monitoring, SCP propose to catalog them during the 4th quarter.

Australian National Library Press: Cataloging requested by a local campus, this collection contains open access ebooks and ejounals, updated monthly. As of 8/1/2017 there are 820 vendor MARC records available for ebooks. There is, as Becky suggests, significant overlap with DOAB and other OA collections. It will slow down the initial processing but ongoing cataloging should be minimal.

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, September 6, 2017
Approved by JSC, October 9, 2017

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: July-September 2017

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

CRC Press STMnetbase
Alexander Street Press 60 Minutes
CABI’s Invasive Species Compendium
Agricultural & Environmental Sciences Database (AESD)

Project-oriented Chinese cataloging priorities

Chinese periodical full-text database

CRC Press STMnetbase: CRC Press titles came in many subsets in the past. With the STMnetbase Upgrade, SCP needs to figure out the best strategy to identify what titles should be cataloged and if batch cataloging is a possibility.

Alexander Street Press 60 Minutes: A video collection of 2000+ episodes of TV program 60 Minutes. Requested by UC Davis to catalog at title (episode) level. SCP is able to find OCLC records for cataloging this collection if JSC approved.

CABI’s Invasive Species Compendium: An open access encyclopedic resource including over 9,000 Datasheets and over 190,000 Abstracts. Requested by UC Berkeley. SCP can catalog it at the database level if JSC approved.

Agricultural & Environmental Sciences Database (AESD): A tier 3 collection with three campuses (UCB, UCI, UCSB) and another two campuses (UCD, UCLA) upgraded to Natural Sciences. The latter encompasses the basic AESD collection. About 2,000+ out of 2,700+ AESD titles are full text journals (remaining titles are abstracts). Among these 2,000+ titles, about 1,000+ titles already have catalog records from other packages cataloged by UCSD or SCP, and another 600+ on OCLC are CONSER records. So for these 1,600+ titles, SCP can identify, process in batches, and distribute. For the rest of 400+ titles, SCP will need to catalog as a project for 2017Q3 priority if JSC approved.

Additional notes: Upon completion of cataloging the AESD initial package, SCP can, if desired by UCLA and UCD, pull a special file of AESD titles for UCD and UCLA. They can edit the 856 field as desired. Upon loading, they can add holdings to these titles on their own. They can also catalog the additional Natural Sciences titles that have not overlapped with AESD.

Because AESD is not a tier 2 package and will not be managed by CDL Acquisitions, each campus will activate SFX for the package at their local level. SCP will maintain the URLs for AESD titles via CDL PID server, not UC-eLinks.

Chinese periodical full-text database (25,000 titles) and Late Qing dynasty periodical full text database (300 titles): Slowly making progress. Primarily apply SCP Phased Cataloging Strategies (strategy 2 phase 1) in the following order: step 1) develop search strategies to identify titles lacking OCLC records and batch create level 3/K OCLC records for these titles; step 2) upon completion of step 1, evaluate and develop workflow to review and process titles matched in OCLC. It will be a great challenge and may take a long time to identify and match the right records in OCLC due to false hits and/or duplicate records found in OCLC, poor quality of vendor provided metadata, etc. The goal for this quarter is to complete the work in step 1.

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, June 6, 2017
Revised with JSC’s feedback and approval, July 11, 2017

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: April-June 2017

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

End-of-year purchases and transitions
Review and update cataloging of collection packages
Open Access E-book Cataloging Project

Project-oriented Chinese cataloging priorities

Chinese periodical full-text database
CAJ hidden title changes

Any end-of-year purchases and packages/platform transitions will be SCP’s primary focus. SCP also will review and update cataloging of ongoing packages. SCP has maintained ongoing packages update status report. The report shows which packages have been cataloged according to expected cataloging frequency/schedule. The review and update process is a reality check to see what packages were behind the schedule and in need to adjust cataloging frequency. Taking JSC’s suggestion, SCP will define quarterly as the default cataloging frequency for E-book packages with the option to reset. Conditions which might affect increasing or decreasing the frequency would be ease of record discovery, quantity of titles published per quarter, quality of the available records, etc. We can report any such changes to JSC. With increasing batch cataloging of monographs, SCP will also review workflow/assignments to make adjustments as needed.

Open Access E-book Cataloging Project: SCP will complete the initial cataloging of the following packages if not finished by the first quarter. Background information: To eliminate cataloging redundancy for open access monographs resources due to overlap of contents, SCP proposed that if a currently cataloged OA resource is adequately represented with at least one valid Open Access link for all campuses in the cataloged record there should be no need to add multiple other OA links. It was approved by JSC on January 13 with suggested changes. SCP would like to catalog the following OA collections with the proposed approach in the order of importance that JSC recommends.

DOAB

Knowledge Unlatched

JSTOR OA eBooks

Luminos

OAPEN

Open Book Publishers

Open Textbook Library (including OpenStax titles in the collection)

Springer

Chinese periodical full-text database (25,000 titles) and Late Qing dynasty periodical full text database (300 titles): Primarily apply SCP Phased Cataloging Strategies (strategy 2 phase 1) in the following order: step 1) develop search strategies to identify titles lacking OCLC records and batch create level 3/K OCLC records for these titles; step 2) upon completion of step 1, evaluate and develop workflow to review and process titles matched in OCLC. It will be a great challenge and may take a long time to identify and match the right records in OCLC due to false hits and/or duplicate records found in OCLC, poor quality of vendor provided metadata, etc. The goal for this quarter is to complete the work in step 1.

CAJ hidden title changes: University of Hong Kong Library shared with the cooperative cataloguing project partners the online version OCLC records for CAJ titles including hidden title changes. For Series F-H, and J that UC subscribes, SCP is short of around 1,500 titles, most of which are hidden title changes. In January and February, Bie-hwa and a student assistant batched searched the 5,466 OCLC records including those records that replaced the original University of Hong Kong records. In the coming quarter, Bie-hwa will batch identify the records that SCP has not catalogued by matching OCLC number or title using MarcEdit and export them from OCLC. Manual identification may be involved for those cannot be identified by MarcEdit tools.

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, March 1, 2017
Revised with JSC’s feedback, April 10, 2017
Approved by JSC, May 8, 2017

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: January-March 2017

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

UCSD ILS/LSP RFP & SCP
JSTOR DDA Pilot
Open Access E-book Cataloging Project
OAPEN Library E-books
Open Textbook Library

Project-oriented Chinese cataloging priorities

CNPIEC Chinese DDA Pilot
Chinese periodical full-text database

UCSD ILS/LSP RFP & SCP: SCP operations have been piggybacked on UCSD ILS. With UCSD looking for new ILS/LSP, SCP catalogers need to experiment with RFP vendors’ ILS sandbox and participate in vendors’ onsite demo sessions to evaluate vendor’s potentials in terms of SCP functionalities and workflows, such as how SCP records (one of two sets of records) within the system would be identified so that they can be flagged for record extraction, transformation, manipulation, and loading, as well as independent reporting and workflow, separate from UCSD records. (Right now we append a suffix to the OCLC number to differentiate SCP’s OCLC numbers from UCSD’s.)

JSTOR DDA Pilot: Initial evaluation and workflow set up for the weekly load and cataloging purchased titles. Also need to resolve the issue for UCB record delivery.

Open Access E-book Cataloging Project: To eliminate cataloging redundancy for open access monographs resources due to overlap of contents, SCP proposed that if a currently cataloged OA resource is adequately represented with at least one valid Open Access link for all campuses in the cataloged record there should be no need to add multiple other OA links. It was approved by JSC on January 13 with suggested changes. SCP would like to catalog the following OA collections with the proposed approach.

DOAB
Knowledge Unlatched
JSTOR OA eBooks
Luminos
OAPEN
Open Book Publishers
Open Textbook Library (including OpenStax titles in the collection)
Springer

OAPEN Library E-books: Requested by bibliographers from UC San Diego in May, see Annelise Sklar’s message on May 3, 2016. The project was not listed for the last quarterly priority list because we find it is a more complex process than we initially expected, described above; also because of other packages such as T&F, CUP, ASCE have higher priority. It will be part of the OA E-book Cataloging Project.

Open Textbook Library: Requested by bibliographers from UC Santa Cruz in October. The OTL provides MARC records with a CC0 public domain license at http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/Discovery.aspx and includes theOpenStax titles in their collection. All the OTL books are also high quality and at the college level, and “currently in use at multiple higher education institutions, or affiliated with a higher education institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.” Currently it has about 302 titles with OCLC MARC records. It will be part of the OA E-book Cataloging Project.

CNPIEC Chinese DDA Pilot: Initial evaluation and workflow set up for the monthly load and cataloging purchased title.

Chinese cataloging priorities:

The following priority order reflects the East Asian Bibliographers decisions.

New Purchases
- Chinamaxx (new purchases) (Tier 2)
- Apabi ebooks and yearbooks (new purchases and backlog from 2009) (Tier 2)
- Airiti ebooks (new purchases from DDA pilot) (Tier 2)
- [new] CNPIEC ebooks (new purchases from DDA pilot) (Tier 2)
- Chinese periodical full-text database (Minguo shi qi qi kan) (Tier 2)
- Late Qing Dynasty Periodical Full Text Database (1833-1911) (Wan Qing qi kan quan wen shu ju ku) (Tier 2)
- Dacheng Journals (Tier 1)
- Chinese classic ancient books (Zhongguo ji ben gu ji ku) (Tier 2)
- Chinese local records (Zhongguo fang zhi ku) (Tier 2)
- Pi shu (Tier 2)
- Ongoing maintenance for catalogued packages
  - CAJ (Tier 1)
  - COJ (Tier 2)
  - TEPS (Tier 2)
  - Apabi (Tier 2)
  - SuperStar (Tier 2)
  - DragonSource (Tier 2)
  - SuperStar Chinamaxx Phase 1 (Tier 2) –Cataloged by UCSD and UCSB
  - [New] Zhong gong dang shi qi kan shu ju ku (bundled with Tier 1 Dacheng)

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, December 6, 2016, revised February 14, 2017
Approved by JSC, February 21, 2017

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: October-December 2016

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

Open Access E-book Analysis Project
OAPEN Library E-books
Open Textbook Library
SpringerOpen Online Journals
EBSCO Japanese DDA pilot

Open Access E-book Analysis Project: With OA e-books becoming more high profile it will become necessary for Donal to devote more time to these collections. There are some notable problems with both identifying OA titles and ensuring as little duplication of records as possible. Many of the collections (DOAB, OAPEN, Springer, etc.) overlap to varying degrees and will need to be examined carefully in order to prevent that duplication of content and the duplication of effort further down the road. Also, ISBNs cannot always be trusted if they even appear in the content, titles can differ from one title list to another as there is no real standardization of how the metadata should be presented with OA. The approach I would recommend taking, initially at least, is to concentrate solely on OA for at least 2 weeks to the exclusion of all other work. Being able to focus on OA as a project will allow to create a better workflow for all Open Access going forward.

The primary OA collections to be analyzed are:

DOAB
Institute of Physics
Knowledge Unlatched
Luminos
National Academies Press
OAPEN
Open Book Publishers
Open Textbook Library (including OpenStax titles in the collection)
Springer
WAC Clearinghouse
World Bank
De Gruyter

OAPEN Library E-books: Requested by bibliographers from UC San Diego in May, see Annelise Sklar’s message on May 3, 2016. The project was not list for the last quarterly priority list because we find it is a more complex process than we initially expected, described above; also because of other packages such as T&F, CUP, ASCE have higher demand. We hope by completing the OA E-book Analysis Project, we will be able to work on OAPEN package more effectively.

SpringerOpen Online Journals: Requested by bibliographers from UC San Diego in August, see David Schmitt’s message on August 30, 2016. There are currently 238 SpringerOpen journals (https://www.springeropen.com/journals-a-z). We cataloged 143 as of August. We will catalog the remaining available titles.

Chinese cataloging priorities:

The following reflect the East Asian Bibliographers decisions.

Chinamaxx (New purchases) (Tier 2)
Apabi ebooks and yearbooks (new purchases and backlog from 2009) (Tier 2)
Airiti ebooks (new purchases from DDA pilot) (Tier 2)
Chinese periodical full-text database (Minguo shi qi qi kan) (Tier 2)
Late Qing Dynasty Periodical Full Text Database (1833-1911) (Wan Qing qi kan quan wen shu ju ku) (Tier 2)
Dacheng Journals (Tier 1)
Chinese classic ancient books and Chinese local records (Tier 2)
Pi shu (Tier 2)
Ongoing maintenance to cataloged packages (COJ (Tier 2), TEPS (Tier 2), CAJ (Tier 1), Apabi (Tier 2), SuperStar (Tier 2), DragonSource (Tier 2))
SuperStar Chinamaxx Phase 1 (Tier 2)

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, September 2, 2016
Revised with JSC’s feedback, October 11, 2016

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: July-Sept 2016

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

Cambridge Books Online
Taylor & Francis online journals
Cornell University Press OA monograph titles
EBSCO Japanese DDA pilot
ASCE eBooks & Standards
JSTOR Arts & Sciences XV

We will consider both Cambridge Books Online (about 1,200 titles) and Taylor & Francis (about 2,400 titles) packages as top priorities. JSC also received feedback from bibliographers that Cambridge eBooks and Taylor & Francis Online journals are priorities in their minds.

Receiving the request from campuses, JSC decided to add Cornell University Press OA monograph titles to this list, an initial group of seven classic titles from the Press’ distinguished catalog made available on the Project MUSE platform.

We will continue to keep purchased DDA titles as top priorities. At the moment, we have EBSCO Japanese DDA pilot and Airiti DDA, the later one is included in Chinese cataloging priorities below.

ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) consists of conference proceedings, ebooks, journals, and standards. The journals were cataloged by Becky back in March. There will be initial set of records for Conferences that can be batch processed. For Ebooks & Standards: there are currently only 6 titles available according to the title list. We don’t anticipate substantial workload beyond the initial set of conference records.

Once purchased made in July for the next fiscal year, JSTOR Arts & Sciences XV, the last in the Arts & Sciences Journals Archive Collection, will be cataloged. This collection will have more than 150 titles by 2018, with more than 50 available by the end of April 2016. Notable titles:

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Historian
Philosophia Reformata
Journal of Mind and Behavior
Pi Mu Epsilon Journal
Statistica Sinica
Studia Rosenthaliana

Chinese cataloging priorities:

The following reflect the East Asian Bibliographers decisions.

Chinamaxx (New purchases) (Tier 2)
Apabi ebooks and yearbooks (new purchases and backlog from 2009) (Tier 2)
Airiti ebooks (new purchases from DDA pilot) (Tier 2)
Chinese periodical full-text database (Minguo shi qi qi kan) (Tier 2)
Late Qing Dynasty Periodical Full Text Database (1833-1911) (Wan Qing qi kan quan wen shu ju ku) (Tier 2) (covers approximately 280,000 articles published in 302 Chinese-language periodicals)
Dacheng Journals (Tier 1)
Chinese classic ancient books and Chinese local records (Tier 2)
Pi shu (Tier 2)
Ongoing maintenance to cataloged packages (COJ (Tier 2), TEPS (Tier 2), CAJ (Tier 1), Apabi (Tier 2), SuperStar (Tier 2), DragonSource (Tier 2))
SuperStar Chinamaxx Phase 1 (Tier 2)

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, May 27, 2016
Revised with JSC’s feedback, June 15, 2016

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: April-June 2016

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

EBSCO Japanese DDA pilot
ICPSR online datasets project
Cambridge Books Online (Pending on finalizing license)
Taylor & Francis online journals (Pending on finalizing license)

We will continue to keep purchased DDA titles as top priorities. This will be EBSCO Japanese DDA pilot at the moment. With YBP/Ebrary DDA pilot ended, the records for the purchased title is done. We also have Airiti DDA which is included in Chinese cataloging priorities below.

With campus request, we will provide initial batch cataloging for ICPSR online datasets (9264 records) as a special catalog project. Then we will incorporate the new content into standing cataloging priorities.

We will consider both Cambridge Books Online (about 1,200 titles) and Taylor & Francis (about 2,400 titles) packages as top priorities once their licenses are finalized.

Standing cataloging priorities:

These are presented for JSC annual review.

New content from currently licensed journal packages (transfers, adds, etc.)
New acquisitions
UC supported open access resources (e.g. eScholarship, BioMedCentral, DOAJ, Knowledge unlatched, Luminos)
Other open access resources (by request only)
New content from other licensed packages
DOAB

Chinese cataloging priorities:

The following reflect the East Asian Bibliographers decisions.

Chinamaxx (New purchases) (Tier 2)
Apabi ebooks and yearbooks (new purchases and backlog from 2009) (Tier 2)
Airiti ebooks (new purchases from DDA pilot) (Tier 2)
Chinese periodical full-text database (Minguo shi qi qi kan) (Tier 2)
Dacheng Journals (Tier 1)
Chinese classic ancient books and Chinese local records (Tier 2)
Pi shu (Tier 2)
Ongoing maintenance to cataloged packages (COJ (Tier 2), TEPS (Tier 2), CAJ (Tier 1), Apabi (Tier 2), SuperStar (Tier 2), DragonSource (Tier 2))
SuperStar Chinamaxx Phase 1 (Tier 2)

Respectfully submitted,
Shi Deng, April 5, 2016;
Revised with JSC’s feedback, April 12, 2016

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: January-March 2016

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

End-of-year purchases
Reveal Digital
Japanese DDA pilot
YBP/Ebrary purchased titles
Leveraging the OCLC KB

Any end-of-year purchases will be SCP’s primary focus at the beginning of the year. We still have about 80 titles left on the last group of titles from Reveal Digital, so they will be next on our priorities. After these two priorities, we will be keeping close tabs on the remaining DDA package we have, for Japanese. The YBP/Ebrary DDA pilot was canceled and the DDA records have been sent for deletion from campus OPACs. All that remains on this is cataloging of the final group of purchased titles, estimated to be about 100 titles.

We have conducted several tests on performing monographic bibliographic maintenance based on OCLC KB record update reports. A significant portion of the updates, 90% and greater per file, are for the addition of subject headings and additional access points. Files are processed weekly and on average a file contains about 600 titles, with the process taking about 1 hour to complete. Based on this, we recommend that the updating of records through this process be approved as an ongoing work task for SCP.

Chinese cataloging priorities:

The following reflect the East Asian Bibliographers decisions.

Chinamaxx (New purchases)
Apabi ebooks and yearbooks (new purchases and backlog from 2009)
Airiti ebooks (new purchases from DDA pilot)
Chinese periodical full-text database (Minguo shi qi qi kan)
Dacheng Journals
Chinese classic ancient books and Chinese local records
Pi shu
Ongoing maintenance to cataloged packages (COJ, TEPS, CAJ, Apabi, SuperStar, DragonSource)
SuperStar Chinamaxx Phase 1

Respectfully submitted,
Adolfo R. Tarango
December 20, 2015

SCP Quarterly Cataloging Priorities Report to the JSC: October-December 2015

Project-oriented cataloging priorities

YBP/Ebrary DDA pilot
Japanese DDA pilot
Reveal Digital
Leveraging the OCLC KB

With the end-of-fiscal year purchases taken care of, SCP will basically be returning to “normal” operations but keeping close tabs on our two DDAs and putting extra time in getting the Reveal Digital collection cataloged. This later package is being given focus as it was called out for cataloging when first purchased several months ago, but a soon announced platform upgrade necessitated a delay in cataloging. Since the platform migration is now completed, we can proceed with cataloging. We expected about 400 titles to go out by the end of October with an additional 400 by the end of December.

Regarding the YBP/Ebrary DDA, at the request of the DDA pilot Task Group, SCP will now proactively acquire and distribute records instead of waiting for notification that OCLC records are available. Over the past several months SCP has found that we are not getting OCLC numbers for a substantial portion of each week’s DDA releases, in some cases, it has been months since the titles were actually available and yet no OCLC number has been provided. As such these titles remain invisible to our patrons. Since there are in fact OCLC records for these titles, the Task Group has given us the go-ahead to not wait, but instead to just identify and distribute records as DDA titles become available. This proactive process will add perhaps a half-hour to an hour to our exiting workflow.

We have conducted several test on performing monographic bibliographic maintenance based on OCLC KB record update reports and the initial results look very promising. A large portion of the updates are for the addition of subject headings and additional access points. Our analysis will continue and we expect to make a recommendation on making this an ongoing process or not in our next quarterly update.

Chinese cataloging priorities

The purchase of several new packages trigger a review of the Chinese language cataloging priorities by the East Asian Bibliographers. From their review came a recommendation to order the cataloging priorities based on the number of subscribing campuses. Below is a listing based on this recommendation, with packages subscribed by the same number of campuses listed alphabetically.

Chinamaxx (New purchases)
Apabi ebooks and yearbooks (new purchases and backlog from 2009)
Airiti ebooks (new purchases from DDA pilot)
Chinese periodical full-text database (Minguo shi qi qi kan)
Dacheng Journals
Chinese classic ancient books and Chinese local records
Pi shu
Ongoing maintenance to cataloged packages (COJ, TEPS, CAJ, Apabi, SuperStar, DragonSource)
SuperStar Chinamaxx Phase 1

Bie-Hwa Ma, our SCP Chinese language cataloger, along with Shi Deng, head of the UCSD CJK cataloging unit, have had some initial success in generating interest among various libraries to engage in some collaborative cataloging projects. Organizing this under the auspices of the Council of East Asian Libraries (CEAL), details for the project are being worked out but several of the packages we licensed are being considered. Also, as a possible outcome of Bie-Hwa’s ongoing discussion with staff at the University of Hong Kong Library, they are near a decision to create an OCLC KB collection for the Chinese classic ancient book package of nearly 10,000 titles. If they do so, we will be able to acquire this set of records via the OCLC Collection Manager.

Respectfully submitted,

Adolfo R. Tarango

September 21, 2015