August 1, 2002 TDNet, the leading supplier of electronic journals and electronic contents management solutions, today announced the formal launch of its Catalog Maintenance Service (CMS).
Many libraries face the problem of updating their catalogs with constantly changing links, online coverage dates and other bibliographic details of their electronic journals holdings.
In addition, an even more difficult task is adding thousands of new records, representing third-party aggregated journals, not held in print in the library.
For some time TDNet has been sending update files to library customers for catalog uploads. Now the service has been enhanced and formalized as CMS and is offered as a separate stand alone optional utility.
David Fritsch, VP of sales for TDNet, Inc., said, "Our TDNet Main Site product remains, in many ways, the most effective way to manage access to electronic journals. However, libraries have also made major investments in their online catalogs, and many users go to the catalog first to find the resources they need. We developed CMS, along with some of our major customers, as a way to automate the loading and maintaining of MARC records for e-journals. CMS delivers accurate, current data, strengthening the library's catalog as an access tool for users."
Michael Markwith, President of TDNet Inc. says: "We hope that CMS will become a valuable tool for librarians and library systems staff, who until now really had no valid solution to this problem, other than assigning expensive staff to deal with it manually, or giving up on it altogether".
CMS is available in all file formats: text, delimited, excel, MARC and XML. Files can be separated to list additions/removals/changes for each update. Frequency of updates can be weekly or less, per the library's choice.
TDNet offers any or all of the following data elements to be included in the files:
- Customer's catalog unique id number - for precise identification of the title in the catalog
- Print ISSN
- Electronic ISSN
- Journal URL
- Online Coverage Dates
- Aggregator; Database, Aggregator URL
- Publisher; Publisher URL
- Subject Headings (LC)
- Links to electronic Tables of Contents
The main benefits of TDNet's Catalog Maintenance Service:
- Matching Unique id numbers and automatic updates to 856 and other OPAC fields
- Automatic uploads of missing data elements, such as ISSN numbers, publishers names, etc
- Automatic creation of new records for aggregated journals.
- Proxy Server updates - TDNet also provides, as a separate service and in a different file format, configuration files for customers who use proxy servers for authentication purposes.
For more details on both services please contact TDNet regional sales representatives.
About TDNet
TDNet's unique solution to electronic journals management is based on an original approach integrating a diversity of access modes to electronic journals, on one unified, coherent site.
TDNet is a custom-made e-journal service, tailored to include all and only your chosen titles, and to reflect your current access arrangements for every title on the system.
TDNet's database currently holds over 40,000 e-journal web sites and table of contents records. Requests for titles, which have not yet been added to TDNet fast growing database, are welcome. The TDNet team constantly browses the web for more titles.
