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


MARC Diagram
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