Category: Shared Cataloging
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: July 2014
The major distributions for serials last month were for Open Access (488 titles), ScienceDirect (52 titles), JSTOR (50 titles), and ASME (49 titles) with those from ASME being the first distributions for that package. For monographs, our major distributions included […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: June 2014
Once again the only major distributions for serials were for Open Access (229 titles). For monographs, our major distributions included titles for NBER (883), SuperStar (411 titles), Open Access (224 titles), Wiley (151 titles), World Bank (137 titles), Knovel (134 […]
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 […]
SCP’s New PID Service
One of the tools used by the Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) is the PID (Persistent Identifier) Service, which allows SCP to create PIDs for systemwide-licensed resources. PIDs act as substitute URLs for a resource and the PID service allows SCP […]
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 […]