[Eril-l] Evaluating e-book packages - strategies for comparing title lists to your catalog holdings?
Swindler, Luke
luke_swindler at unc.edu
Fri Jan 9 14:47:09 PST 2015
Linked equivalent ISBNs are the critical first step to performing an accurate comprehensive match of a library’s print and e-books holding against titles in an e-book package. This linkage involves:
* • Being able to get a listing of eISBNs for all titles in a publisher or vendor e- books package;
* • Being able to link to (and thereby de-duplicate) all equivalent eISBNs, which would include the publisher eISBN and every aggregator eISBN for the same title; and
* • Being able to link all print ISBNs (which would include both paperback and hardback ISBNs, along with any variations such as non-U.S. ISBN) to all equivalent eISBNs so to de-duplicate.
Typically only a large book vendor with a sophisticated bibliographical database such as YBP Library Services has the capacity to achieve this first step.
The second step would involve the matching itself against holdings. If a library has purchased all or nearly all its titles from a book vendor with this capability, then having the vendor match all relevant print and e-ISBNs against library purchases would be the most efficient/effective means to de-duplicate accurately and comprehensively rather than trying to match against records in the library catalog.
Finally, if the library agreed to buy the needed e-books via the vendor, then it would have the financial incentive to do this record match for the library because of potential sales.
Luke Swindler
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On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Spurgin, Kristina M <kspurgin at email.unc.edu<mailto:kspurgin at email.unc.edu>> wrote:
Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification.
Our catalog has over 7 million records in it, so even just pulling out and doing a basic cleanup of the ISBN data in our catalog would be a very big job. I don’t want to have to do that every time a selector wants to evaluate a new package.
I think I’m going ahead with Daniel Sifton’s idea of using the batch search feature of MarcEdit for this, as I think that’ll end up taking a lot less of my hands-on time.
Thanks to everyone for the info and ideas!
-Kristina
From: Jill Emery [mailto:jill.emery at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 4:55 PM
To: Spurgin, Kristina M
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Subject: Re: [Eril-l] Evaluating e-book packages - strategies for comparing title lists to your catalog holdings?
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<mailto: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<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<mailto: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<mailto: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
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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<tel:919-962-3825> -- kspurgin at email.unc.edu<mailto:kspurgin at email.unc.edu>
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