Subject: Re: Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
Bernhard Eversberg (EV@buch.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 07:42:22 +0200
From: "Bernhard Eversberg" <EV@buch.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de> To: arl-ejournal@arl.org Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 07:42:22 +0200 Subject: Re: Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals Message-Id: <88617E224D@buch.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de>
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Gerry McKiernan <gerrymck@iastate.edu> wrote:
>
> From this brief survey, I've concluded that catalogers in general
> are not aware of the multimedia dimensions of such journals and that
> journals such as these would be difficult to identify due to the lack
> of standard and uniform description of the multimedia.
First of all, one has to *become* aware of the new dimensions an
e-journal has taken on. Nobody can go to every e-journal site every
day and monitor the changes that occur and new services implemented
overnight. (As well as changes in URLs, as goes without saying --
a big enough headache.)
You are all invited to look at the e-journal listings we have set up
and revise at least one a week, at
http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/CoOL
You get a table of some 45 subject areas, like "PY Physik" or "ME
Medizin" (headlines in German). On each of the subject pages, there's
a link to "E-Zeitschriften". On each of those pages, you can search
for "multimedia". All titles on Gerry's list are contained, in fact
we took the trouble to make sure we have them all.
Further, we have a database, free for downloading, of some 15.000
titles, not all with URLs but containing all titles in the ISI and
OCLC FirstSearch services as well. This is at
http://www.alcarta.com/elcarta.htm
Among other downloadables, you find the EJO database. It requires
windows 95, 98 or NT.
Good luck, B.E.
Bernhard Eversberg
Universitaetsbibliothek, Postf. 3329,
D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany
Tel. +49 531 391-5026 , -5011 , FAX -5836
e-mail B.Eversberg@tu-bs.de
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