Author: Adolfo Tarango
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: May 2014
Our past month’s distributions for monographs included titles for Open Access (1195 titles), SuperStar (640 titles), Springer (345 titles), CRC Press (288 titles), Apabi (113 titles), IEEE (76 titles), Wiley (65 titles), and Elsevier (51 titles). The majority of the […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: April 2014
I’m pleased to announce that SCP is now cataloging two high profile open access monographic collections, Knowledge Unlatched and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). The UC’s are charter members of Knowledge Unlatched, http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, a collaborative initiative enabling free […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: March 2014
All the DDA pilots seem to be going strong. SCP is currently distributing records for four DDA pilots with records distributed for 1243 titles from YBP/Ebrary, 46 titles from CRC Press ENGnetBASE, 713 titles from Airiti, and 1540 titles from […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: February 2014
We had only three major e-book package distributions in January, for Springer (1,121 titles), SuperStar (211 titles), and IEEE (53 titles). There was an overall decrease (117 titles) in the number of CRC Press titles available since we removed 224 […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: December 2013
The major journal package distributions for November were for Open Access (373 tiles), EBSCO (48 titles), JSTOR (35 titles), Project Muse (28 titles), and LexisNexis Academic (27 titles). For monographs, the major distributions were for Naxos Jazz (1569 titles), Knovel […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: November 2013
A couple of announcements regarding the Airiti Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) package, first, ongoing problems with the ability of Airiti to provide the DDA records for the campuses necessitated SCP take over the process. Instead of each campus separately acquiring […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — October 2013
Last month there were only a couple of significant serial distributions, for Open Access serials (121 titles) and SuperStar (77 titles). The major monograph distributions were for the Alexander Street Press Classical music library (2385 titles), SuperStar (289 titles), Wiley […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — September 2013
It appears that CDL will be moving forward with a Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) pilot with YBP/Ebrary. Therefore, SCP expects to start distributing OCLC records for these DDA titles sometime in the next several weeks. The records will be distributed […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — August 2013
Folks interested in our online music resources will be pleased to note that SCP sent out 29,313 records for titles in the Naxos Music Library. And because OCLC is now engaged in a concerted effort to catalog the titles in […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — July 2013
The significant record distributions for July include the following for journals: Open Access (307 titles), Wiley-Blackwell (45 titles), and JSTOR (33 titles). We had one new monographs package, MIT Press, for which 468 records were sent out. These titles are […]