EDINA Serials Forum: Helping you manage your journal collections

Booking is now open for this free half-day event on Friday 21st March 2014 focusing on some of the key issues in journal management - with presentations and discussion of the overarching themes and successful approaches in addressing them.

This is an opportunity to learn more about developments of EDINA activities in this area -covering the redeveloped SUNCAT (http://www.suncat.ac.uk), as well as community initiatives such as the UK LOCKSS Alliance  (http://www.lockssalliance.ac.uk/) and Keepers Registry (http://thekeepers.org/), focussing on long-term access to journal content.

Join us for a lively debate and afternoon tea.

Presenters: Zena Mulligan (SUNCAT), Fred Guy (Keepers Registry, SUNCAT) and Adam Rusbridge (Keepers Registry, UK LOCKSS)

Location:

Edinburgh:  Friday 21st March 2014, Main Library, University of Edinburgh

Draft Agenda:

1.00 - 1.30 pm              Registration and tea/coffee

1.30 - 1.45 pm              Putting the Serials Forum and EDINA services in

context

1.45 - 2.30 pm             Managing your journals - how SUNCAT can help you

fulfil your ILL requests; keep your catalogue up to date and analyse your collection (including use cases; details of the redevelopment; demo of the new service, and future plans)

2.30 - 3.00 pm              Forum discussion on SUNCAT issues

3.00 - 3.30 pm              Tea/coffee and cake

3.30 - 4.15 pm              Securing continuing access to e-journal content:

how EDINA's services can help (with reference to the Keepers Registry, UK LOCKSS Alliance, and PECAN initiatives)

4.15 - 4.45 pm              Forum discussion on Keepers Registry, LOCKSS,

PECAN etc. issues

4.45 - 5.00 pm              Summary and next steps

                 

Registration and event details:

http://edina-serials-forum-edinburgh.eventbrite.co.uk

For further information about the Forum please contact the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk

News from SUNCAT

SUNCAT - Serials Union CATalogue for the UK research community:

SUNCAT are delighted to welcome Glasgow School of Art as a new SUNCAT contributing library.  This addition brings the total number of contributing libraries to 91, plus the CONSER database, the ISSN register and the Directory of Open Access Journals.

The Library of the Glasgow School of Art has one of the finest art, design and architecture collections in the UK, reflecting the School's long history. The School joins a growing number of art institutions on SUNCAT, including:

  - British Film Institute

  - Courtauld Institute of Art

  - Edinburgh College of Art (as part of the University of Edinburgh)

  - The National Art Library

  - Royal Institute of British Architects

  - Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

  - Scottish National Gallery Research Library

  - Tate Library (Tate Britain)

  - University of the Arts

For a full list of the 91 libraries contributing to SUNCAT, please go

to:

http://www.suncat.ac.uk/description/contributing_libraries.html

For further information and news about SUNCAT please see the website at http://www.suncat.ac.uk, the SUNCAT Blog at http://www.suncatblog.blogspot.com/,

SUNCAT on Twitter (@suncatteam), or contact the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk

Robert Gordon University and Courtauld Institute of Art now contributing to SUNCAT

The serials records of two institutions have just been added to SUNCAT. This takes the number of SUNCAT Contributing Libraries up to 85, plus CONSER, ISSN and the DOAJ.

Robert Gordon University, located in Aberdeen, offers a wide range of courses in 10 different subject areas, including: Architecture, Construction and Surveying; Information, Communication, and Media; and Laboratory, and Biomedical and Sports Sciences. Robert Gordon University Library has supplied SUNCAT with 14,500 serials records.

The Courtauld Institute of Art is an international centre for the study of the history of art and conservation, as well as home to one of the finest small art museums in the world. Its Book Library provides access to a significant art historical collection and is one of the major international research collections of art historical books, periodicals and exhibition catalogues in the country.

Just over 1,000 serial records, for both print and electronic titles, have been loaded into SUNCAT.

Take a look at SUNCAT’s Contibuting Libraries map for the full range of Contributing Libraries.

SUNCAT is the Serials Union Catalogue for the UK. Visit the service at http://www.suncat.ac.uk or the SUNCAT blog at http://suncatblog.blogspot.com