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The E-Resources group recommends that the use of the 930/973 in the collocation of electronic collections be determined by local Resource Management and Discovery needs at individual campuses. We also recommend the creation of Electronic Collections in Alma to replace the discovery, collocation, and management functions of the 930/973.
Note: While our recommendation groups the 930 and 973 fields together, use of the 930 in Alma is limited to CDL, while the 973 is the equivalent field for local campuses.
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The maintenance of the 930/973 for eBook and eJournal collections for Alma users can be replaced by collocating electronic resource portfolios into electronic collections
Electronic Collections records in Alma provide variable fields in which the older 930/973 can be preserved
The local patron use of/interest in preserving the 930/973 for discovery on Primo VE can be determined by individual campuses
Depending on the bibliographic record policy adopted for multi-part electronic collections, 930/973 can be made searchable in individual campus Primo VE indexing
Alma Analytics Dashboard can be used to create views that collect electronic content for Collection Development purposes without the 930/973
Most bibliographic content in the Network Zone managed by CDL are from the SFX instance and are currently discoverable without the 930/973
Background
Electronic Collection names already exist for CZ-linked records
Electronic Collections activated from SFX and/or linked to the CZ – particularly databases and ebooks – are often attached to poor quality bibliographic records
Electronic Collections names from CZ may differ from 930/973 package names
If 930/973 names differ from CZ-linked Electronic Collections names, they are not currently searchable in the Database name search in Primo VE
For campuses that are newly migrated to Alma and Primo VE, CZ-linked bibliographic records, portfolios, and electronic collections in Alma are created from the SFX data load and duplicate ILS bibliographic records
These campuses are still dependent on the 930/973 to identify and manage their existing local collections
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