SUNCAT developments

Help for low-use journals

SUNCAT has been involved in talks to assist in the preservation and access of low-use print journals.

The SUNCAT team recently met with Nicola Wright from the UK Research Reserve (UKRR) project, which is setting out to ensure the storage of a minimum number of copies of low-use print journals which libraries wish to dispose of. SUNCAT is well placed to assist the UKRR as it currently contains the journal holdings of all but one of the UKRR Phase one libraries, and the remaining library, St Andrews, should be loaded into SUNCAT within the next month. Phase one of the project is a collaboration between the British Library and a small group of UK research libraries. More information is available at the UK Research Reserve website.

International collaboration

The SUNCAT team have been actively contacting other national union catalogues with a view to finding areas of common interest, building relationships and looking at ways that SUNCAT could link into related international services. These catalogues include:

Consortium of Icelandic Libraries
COPAC
GALLILEO (union catalogue for academic and public section in the state of Georgia, USA)
KVK - Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (Germany, Austria and Switzerland union catalogue)
LINDA (Finnish Union Catalogue)
National Union Catalogue of Printed Materials and the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (based at the Library of Congress, USA)
NCC (Netherlands Central Catalogue)
NUKAT (Polish Union Catalogue)
SAMPER (Norwegian Union Catalogue)
SCoRE (The National UK Catalogue of Printed Company Records)
Swiss Gateway to Periodicals

SUNCAT has set up a Union Catalogue Discussion list. If you are interested in joining the list, please contact the SUNCAT team

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