SUNCAT - towards implementation Tony Kidd Glasgow University Library

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT SUNCAT Rationale Origins SUNCAT organisation Timetable Methodology

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT Rationale User demand - location – Humanities/Social Sciences – Print collections but also electronic – Visits access to collections holdings – Document delivery

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT Rationale Library demand - record source – Record quality variations Bibliographic Holdings – Source(s) for records required – Importance of record exchange – OpenURL ramifications

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT Rationale JOIN-UP [ – Seamless access to journals/journal articles Databases Current awareness services - ZETOC – Xgrain/ZBLSA/Docusend/ZETOC – JISC Information Environment Research Support Libraries Group [ – February 2003 Final Report – Recommendation “expedite a national serials catalogue (SUNCAT) to launch state” Exploitation and rationalisation

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT Origins World List of Scientific Periodicals, BUCOP – British Union Catalogue of Periodicals, UKNUC Feasibility Study, 2000-April 2001 – Final report [ – Serials report [ SUKNUC £880K SUNCAT scoping study, Spring 2002 [ doc]

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT Origins Existing serials catalogues – COPAC [ – SALSER [ – University of London Union List of Serials [

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT SUNCAT organisation Invitation to Tender for Provision of a National Serials Union Catalogue, Oct 2002 – £700K over two years – JISC + RSLP Contract awarded Feb 2003

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT SUNCAT organisation ITT Background – “The key users of the SUNCAT catalogue are expected to be researchers at all levels, inside and outside of UK Higher Education, for whom the catalogue will provide a mechanism for identifying the location of holdings of serials of interest to them held outside their home institution. The catalogue is also expected to have applicability for learning, particularly at undergraduate level but also beyond into the life long learning context. For librarians and contributing libraries SUNCAT will provide a centralised catalogue of high quality bibliographic records for serials held in UK libraries, and a mechanism whereby they can replace their own local records with standardised high quality records obtained from the central database.”

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT SUNCAT organisation EDINA lead partner [ Overall leadership/technical input Peter Burnhill, Project Director Leah Halliday, Project Manager Ex Libris ALEPH 500 California Digital Library Edinburgh University Library User requirements/liaison Liz Stevenson ‘Associate partners’ National Library of Scotland Glasgow University Library Universities of Oxford/Cambridge

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT SUNCAT organisation Steering Committee – Chair: Derek Law, Strathclyde – JISC – CURL – British Library Bibliographic Quality Advisory Group – NLS/Cambridge/Oxford/Edinburgh/ Glasgow – Slawek Rozenfeld – 28 March

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT Timetable Phase 1 – Feb 2003 – Dec 2004 – ‘critical start-up mass of titles’ – c20 libraries – ‘Trial service’ followed by ‘Early start service’ during Phase 1 Phase 2 – Jan 2005 – Dec 2006 – ‘Full working service’ – c200 libraries – Including ‘specialised’ libraries e.g. learned societies etc

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT Timetable Phase 1 libraries – British Library – National Lib Scotland – National Lib Wales – Queens Univ Belfast – Univ Birmingham – Univ Bristol – Univ Cambridge – Univ Durham – Univ Edinburgh – Univ Glasgow – Imperial College – Univ Leeds – LSE – Univ Manchester – Univ Nottingham – Univ Oxford – Univ Southampton – UCL – Univ Wales, Cardiff – Univ Warwick

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT Methodology Prime record sources – CONSER – Cooperative Online Serials programme – MARC21 records [ Library of Congress + c30 members, mostly US National Library of Canada Hong Kong Univ Sci Tech National Library of Wales – ISSN International Centre [

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT Methodology Initial additional sources – National Library of Scotland – University of Cambridge – University of Oxford SUNCAT will be accessible to all, available as record source for participating libraries

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT Methodology Ex Libris – California Digital Library [ Load and merge(?) CONSER and ISSN files Match and add files from Phase 1 libraries – Matching algorithms – ISSN, key title Updates on batch basis Systems Analysis meeting April

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT Methodology Initial concentration on bib records ISSNs, incl titles without ISSNs Holdings records vital, but of mixed quality… Print and electronic records/holdings – Electronic access BALSA – OpenURL resolver service – Rights Evaluation Mechanism Document delivery - Docusend

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT Methodology Holdings statement examples – – – 40-58, – Notes: Library holds: March (print), Vol 1, Oct (electronic) – Vol.14-, – Vols.11-13, – 1(1992)- – 6(1972/73)- – [1](1984)-3(1985) – 5 NOS.1-4( ) – – 1(1949)-5(1967) – 1(1968)-7(1974/77) – Vol. 8 (1994) to date – Vol. 13 (1955) to Vol. 30 (1973) – Numbering Vol – Library holds: Winter – Numbering 1991

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April SUNCAT SUNCAT “A keystone in the virtual walls of the digital library for the UK.”