[Eril-l] Evaluating e-book packages - strategies for comparing title lists to your catalog holdings?

[Jill Emery]

Hi Kristina,

ProQuest  will do a match of their Ebrary holdings in particular against
your print holdings and for free ( in hopes of selling you their Academic
Complete product or even subsets of their holdings). You supply them with
your ISBNs as a data dump from Millennium and they take that and try to do
the matches with their collection holdings.

I'm not sure if they'd be open to de-duping from other providers; I
strongly suspect, they'd only de-dupe against their own holdings but it
would be worth having a conversation with your representative.

Jill

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Spurgin, Kristina M <kspurgin at email.unc.edu>
wrote:

>  Hi Jill,
>
>
>
> This sounds interesting. Do you mean that ProQuest will do a match of
> their Ebrary/EBL package titles against your print collection? How do they
> know all the ISBNs in your print collection, I wonder? OCLC holdings or
> some such?
>
> The package is question is from another vendor altogether---will ProQuest
> do this matching on other packages?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kristina
>
>
>
> *From:* Jill Emery [mailto:jill.emery at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, January 09, 2015 4:02 PM
> *To:* Spurgin, Kristina M
> *Cc:* eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Eril-l] Evaluating e-book packages - strategies for
> comparing title lists to your catalog holdings?
>
>
>
> Hi Kristina,
>
>
>
> ProQuest Ebrary/EBL will do matching on your print collection for you. All
> they require is ISBNs as the match point. While it does not provide
> analysis for varying editions; it is a fairly accurate comparison. I'd
> email your ProQuest re about them producing a report for you.
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
>
> Jill Emery
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Spurgin, Kristina M <
> kspurgin at email.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> One of our subject librarians is wanting to evaluate an e-book package
> containing a few thousand titles, but suspects that we may already own a
> large percentage of the titles in print and/or e-book format.
>
> She'd like a way to automate (or semi-automate) answering the question,
> "How many of the titles from this list do we already provide access to in
> some format?" No one here has time to do a few thousand catalog searches
> manually...
>
> But, I know of no obvious/simple way to match a title list against our III
> Millennium catalog.
>
> Has anyone come up with any solutions/strategies for doing this sort of
> comparison at your library?
>
> Thanks,
> Kristina
>
> -=-
> Kristina M. Spurgin
>    E-RESOURCES CATALOGER
>      E-Resources & Serials Management, Davis Library
>                       University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>              CB#3938, Davis Library -- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
>                            919-962-3825 -- kspurgin at email.unc.edu
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