BioMed Central
Library Cataloging

BioMed Central


BioMed Central provides MARC records to facilitate the cataloging of their large collection of Open Access journals. A delimited spreadsheet containing titles, URLs, ISSNs, journal abbreviation and date of initial publication is also available. The MARC records are very bare bones, less than minimal level, but they are something.




- Marcedit
I've just downloaded version 5 of Terry Reese's MarcEdit. Some very nice new features. It has an RSS reader to keep everybody in the loop about updates and news about the tool. It now has a tool to convert delimited text into MARC, export those...

- Cufts2marc
cufts2marc, a MARC record generator for titles in CUFTS resources could be a useful tool for providing access to e-journals.cufts2marc is a utility for generating USMARC bibliographic records for the full-text journals in the collections described in...

- Directory Of Open Access Journals
Another OAI project.Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate...

- Oai
Here is a nice use of the Open Archives Initiative, Citebase. This searches arXiv, cogprints and Biomed Central. "Citebase allows researchers to search across free, full-text research literature eprint archives, with results ranked according to many criteria...

- Maintaining The Catalog
Checking the links is the catalog has become (or should become) a regular task for us. Our small collection, about 22,000 titles, has almost 1000 links located in 856 fields. Thanks to Tom Tyler that task is a bit more automated. He has also created a...



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