If you're interested, here's some more information from Betsy about the e-journal links in MNCAT and the MarcIt load:
SFX people in the various areas are notified about when a MarcIt load is going to take place - Nicole gets the notice at Bio-Med.
MARCit is a service we buy from SFX/ExLibris in order to bring our e-journals into the catalog. We export our active titles from our SFX instance, as well as the titles from the other campus instances. The titles are sent to SFX and they return to us files of records. We have to do fresh exports each time because of the multiple instance situation, which means we have to overlay records in the system. There are 4 points in the process that cause reindexing (so the records disappear for a couple of minutes each time): record overlay, holdings replacement and then the appending of the 856/866 on the holdings, and the deletion of the 856/866 from the bib records.
We would actually like to be able to do this every couple of weeks, so that the catalog stays more current. We will not do this until we can perfect and shorten our loading method. We'd also like to be able to do the whole load at night, but that may be a while.
The A-Z list (e-journal) database is the most current record of our e-holdings.
Liz
Posted by biomedref at May 24, 2006 10:25 AM