CATALOGING PROCEDURES FOR NETWORKED ELECTRONIC RESOURCES, Appendix B(LTS Procedure #96) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| gs | (gateway_standard) | Cornell restricted but including CU-Med |
| gn | (gateway_no-med) | Cornell restricted and excluding CU-Med |
| wo | (world) | Open to the world |
948 -- Local statistics and marker field. Use $f "Special format" for type of electronic resource.
| j | e-journals | Frequency is annual or more often |
| e | non-serial resources in catalog only | Non-serial resources and serials with frequency less often than annual, added only to catalog |
| fd | Find Databases resources | Resources added to Find Databases |
975 -- Find Databases genre designation. Three genre designations are currently valid for Find
Databases (formerly the e-Reference Collection): Catalogs, Indexes, and Full text. The former genre
terms Audio-visual, Numeric data, and Spatial data should no longer be used. Use one of the three
valid terms from the list below to indicate the form of the resource -- not what it contains or what
it is about.Although it is possible to assign more than one genre term to a single title (recording
each term in a separate 975 field), use multiple genre terms sparingly.
Find Databases holds resources that primarily direct readers to information and are useful
for supplyingauthoritative information. Using the vocabulary of the genre designations,
these resources will largely fall into the categories of catalogs and indexes. Additional
categories include encyclopedias, dictionaries, and directories. The nature of electronic
resources will expand the idea of a reference collection to include aggregators sites such
as e-journal or e-book collections, because they are accessed by an index. So, for
example, Project Muse will be part of Find Databases, although its component journals,
such as American Imago, will not.
| Catalogs | Consists of listings of objects, such as merchandise, art objects, products, publications, collectors' items, technical equipment, etc., that have been produced, that are available or located at particular places, or that occur on a particular market, often systematically arranged with descriptive details, prices, etc., accompanying each entry. "RLIN" is an example of a catalog. |
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| Indexes | Consists of comprehensive alphabetical or numerical listings of names, places, or topics found in materials published in a specific field of knowledge.The "MLA Bibliography" and ERIC are examples of indexes. Aggregator sites such as Project Muse, Science Direct, ProQuest, and NetLibrary also fall within the genre in that they provide indexes to large collections of electronic journals or books. |
| Full text | Consists of the complete text of reference works, which are defined as those works that primarily direct readers to information and are useful for supplying authoritative information. For example, assign the Full text genre designation to electronic encyclopedias, dictionaries, and directories. Reference works in this genre may include non-textual data reflecting real or measured quantities, spatially referenced data which can be manipulated using geographic information systems, or non-textual images, sound files, video clips, or other digital multimedia formats. The Full text genre can be used for original works produced in electronic format or print works converted to electronic format. Do not consider as full text electronic versions of print indexes and abstracts produced as databases unless the resource includes the complete text of some or all of the materials indexed. In addition, do not treat as full text those resources which enable users to order delivery of materials online (such as UnCover and Dissertation Abstracts) if the full text of those materials is not immediately accessible at a user's desktop. |
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