Electronic Serials at UPS Prepared by Peggy Firman For: Portals/Orbis Ejournals Workshop May 9, 2002

History of Periodicals Holdings  197u? Periodicals Directory  1992III installation  1993Directory from catalog  1993Business Periodicals Ondisc, 1993

Print Periodicals Directory AAUP BULLETIN : QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS. Paper: v.42: Shelved in Room 009. Microfilm: v AAUW JOURNAL. Paper: v ABA BANK COMPLIANCE. ABI/INFORM: Nov Earlier issues may be available. ABA JOURNAL. ABI/INFORM: February Earlier issues may be available. Research Library Complete: February ABACUS. Paper: v Incomplete: v.29. Recent issues at Periodicals Display. ABI/INFORM: Issues available via Fax. Expanded Academic Index: March 1995-

Periodical Holdings Goals  Accuracy and completeness  Currency  User centered All journals in the catalog All holdings on one record All holdings together in record Consistency across the catalog

Current Procedures  All versions on a single bib  Checkin record for physical pieces  Retire checkins when full, discontinued  Place all summary holdings in bib record  Create items for each source

More complex holdings

Benefits and costs  No checkin needed  Holdings in 1 place  Holdings together  Control title changes  Catalog central source  Not scaleable  New databases  High maintenance  III display  Deletions  Nonstandard fields  Orbis implications

Future Goals  1 source tracking License and # of users ; reproduction Provider data ; billing data  Automatic holdings updating  Appropriate title and holdings alert  Interfaces between vendors and catalog  Overcoming the aggregator pages