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Forum on Access to Electronic Journals from Aggregator Sources: Discussion Notes

Virginia Commonwealth University
January 7, 2000

Wrap-up Discussion Notes
  1. There was agreement that the VIVA central office could get the data on a monthly basis from the vendors and post it ( unmassaged or worked over) on the VIVA web for download as a file by whichever sites wanted to do this.

  2. There was interest in having the VIVA central office use VIVA's influence to lobby for the creation of usable formats and content lists (ISSN's, etc.) from vendors.

  3. There was interest in coordinating the downloads at one VIVA site, and having that site do the preliminary processing and posting the processed list so others could get it.

  4. There was interest in contacting 'jake" developers to find out what VIVA as a group could do to maximize the value and stability of (a) downloads and (b) links to titles and issues.

  5. There was interest in encouraging VIVA libraries to develop and share utilities for managing journal access, such as the VCU web form for creating MARC records from aggregator data, scripts for processing vendor data, scripts for managing output from various integrated library systems.

  6. Some campuses indicated that they were interested in getting technical assistance.

  7. There was interest in doing a project involving cooperative identification of missing ISSN's to supplement the vendor lists and to prevent the same work being done many times iacross many libraries.

  8. There was interest in monitoring serials cataloging rules and guidelines pending from AACR and CONSER.

  9. There was interest in exploring MARC and XML as "database vendor to library" transmission formats

  10. There was interest in supporting simple solutions because this may be a temporary problem.
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