Newsline from EDINA
June 2006: Volume 11, Issue 2
SUNCAT is scheduled to become a full service from 1 August 2006. In preparation for this, the number of libraries contributing information on serials holdings has increased in recent months and the holdings of over 40 libraries are now listed in the database. The target is to have the contributions from 50-60 libraries available by the end of December 2006. Libraries added recently include a number of specialist libraries with unique serials holdings.
The JISC funded a collaborative project between EDINA and Serials Solutions, under the PALS Metadata and Interoperability Projects II. Automating Ingest of Metadata on Serials Subscription (AIMSS) was concerned with the supply of serials holdings information using the ONIX for Serials (Serials Online Holdings) format. Data for two Serials Solutions customers was supplied to EDINA for the updating of holdings records held in SUNCAT. This eight-month project is due to be completed in mid-June and project reports will be published on the SUNCAT web site in due course.
JISC has commissioned a strategic review of the JISC Resource Discovery Services, including the SUNCAT service provided by EDINA. As part of this review, a web-based questionnaire has been created and is linked from the SUNCAT service page. We hope as many SUNCAT users as possible will complete the short questionnaire.