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Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:54:33 -0700
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Sorry,

I was just looking through records for another reason and saw a note to 
myself that OCLC does NOT offer the "first url" option for the set 
Springer Computer Science. I guess it might apply to all of Springer?

No wonder there are so many woes.




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Diana Brooking             (206) 685-0389
Cataloging Librarian       (206) 685-8782 fax
Suzzallo Library           [log in to unmask]
University of Washington
Box 352900
Seattle WA  98195-2900

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, D. Brooking wrote:

> I do the same thing.
>
> OCLC also offers an option where you can just get urls that come from the 
> Springer domain. The way they phrase it is the "first url that comes from the 
> vendor domain" or something like that. But in fact, if there are 2 urls for 
> v. 1 and v.2 for example, OCLC will give more than just the "first" url with 
> the vendor domain.
>
> The only problem is you lose some other urls like table of contents or 
> publisher description that are open access but don't come from the vendor. 
> I've decided that the labor involved in cleaning up the non-vendor urls by 
> hand is too much, so I am willing to sacrifice some of the open access urls. 
> This option is available only for sets supplied by OCLC though.
>
>
>
>
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> Diana Brooking             (206) 685-0389
> Cataloging Librarian       (206) 685-8782 fax
> Suzzallo Library           [log in to unmask]
> University of Washington
> Box 352900
> Seattle WA  98195-2900
>
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Kelley, Marian wrote:
>
>> Although perhaps not the most savvy technological solution for finding 
>> non-Springer URLs, in MarcEdit I do a Find All search for the phrase =856. 
>> Then I eyeball the search results for non-Springer URLs. When I find one I 
>> use a distinct phrase found in the non-Springer URL and do a global Delete 
>> field routine using that phrase.  For instance: Delete 856 field with 
>> ebrary.com in subfield u. Or you can just jump to the record from the 
>> search results and manually delete the offending URL.
>> 
>> Marian Kelley
>> Library Coordinator, Bibliographic Management
>> Robert W. Woodruff Library
>> Emory University
>> 404-727-5710
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> Springer also offers OCLC MARC record sets for these ebooks.  I
>> recently downloaded those and discovered major problems.  The OCLC
>> sets include links to other publisher's versions of these books.
>> Since our library doesn't pay for access through the other
>> e-publishers, it will be frustrating for patrons if I load these
>> records without first cleaning up the extra links, and there are
>> hundreds and hundreds of them.
>> 
>> --
>> Stacy Pober
>> Information Alchemist
>> Manhattan College Library
>> Riverdale, NY 10471
>> [log in to unmask]
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