MARC Updates provides the highest quality and best value for including e-journals in your OPAC
Patrons rely on your OPAC to quickly and easily find titles in your collection. With so much of your collection now delivered electronically, the challenge of keeping your OPAC up-to-date and relevant has never been greater. When they use your OPAC, will they find accurate connections to your e-journals? Can they locate the eBooks in your collection?
Keeping up with changes to your content is problematic. Metadata for your e-journals and eBooks often is incomplete or inaccurate and needs to be corrected, thus requiring you to invest time and energy to ensure its accuracy. For example, if you collect MARC records for the same journal from four providers, you’ll have four separate records representing the same title. When you subscribe to 360 MARC Updates, you will receive only one record with links to the four providers. You also will receive accurate and current records for your entire e-collection.
Reduce your workload: Update records using 360 MARC Updates
The 360 MARC Updates service will keep you current with minimal effort by providing monthly content updates. You no longer will need to track or replace existing records as content changes, saving you time and reducing costs. Want to see how much you could save? Try our MARCulator!
Comparative Workload – Updating your OPAC with MARC Data
The workload required to keep your OPAC up to date with e-resource metadata is almost eliminated using Serials Solutions® 360 MARC Updates.
Enhance the power of your OPAC
With KnowledgeWorks as its foundation, 360 MARC Updates supplies the best bibliographic metadata. We combine the authoritative holdings data in KnowledgeWorks with the premier serials and eBooks cataloging resources—CONSER and Library of Congress MARC records—to provide you with the highest quality coverage for all of your electronic content. Customization options are almost endless, and the service works with virtually any ILS.
Features
Broad collection coverage
Provides comprehensive records for your electronic collection
Standardized yet flexible delivery options
Monthly updates: request updates only for records that have changed, or request all new records each delivery
Maintains data integrity
Maintains local cataloging practices so your records appear how you want them
OPAC agnostic
Works with most ILS systems
ILS-specific customizations
Makes bulk importing simple and error-free with ILS-specific edits or additions
Institution-specific customizations
Ensures that e-serials records match your existing MARC records and local cataloging standards
Single record representation
Aggregates all electronic holdings into a single online record, reducing the number of records required to depict e-serials your patrons need to review to find appropriate content
Highest quality bibliographic data
Put CONSER and Library of Congress records - including LC subject headings, linking fields, and enhanced title data - into your OPAC
Direct links to content and 856 links
Multiple options for URLs: either maintained completely in the bibliographic record, or through a Serials Solutions portal, which also offers includes usage statistics and simplified maintenance
Improved load times
Delivers faster uploads by using smaller upload files; traceable brief records streamline file content
Unicode compliant
Supports Unicode for global capability
OpenURL citation linking
Gives patrons a direct path to entering a citation for returning leading to full-text articles by adding an OpenURL link in an 856 field
Group records
Libraries with a shared OPAC can deliver e-journal data reveal branch links to patrons with library-specific hosted 856 links to patrons
Includes Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks and 360 Core