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Description | Assessment of GOBI OCLC Plus service usefulness for various types of materials |
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Decision summary | Campuses should decide which of their GOBI subaccounts represent a wise use of funds when applying the OCLC Plus cataloging services. Info found in our research indicates that GOBI is doing significant OCLC cataloging on 20-25% of titles received. Comparisons with CZ records show about half of CZ records have no Subject Headings but are otherwise fairly reasonable. |
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Owning group | Acquisitions Operations Subteam + stacymckenna@library.ucla.edu |
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Approver | Operations Team |
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Decision-making process | Analyzed data coming in for UCI’s API program, physical and electronic, to assess which titles had full records available up order, which needed GOBI labor, and how available CZ records for e-res compared. |
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We recommend a detailed analysis at each campus on the time/cost impacts of the Gold Plus program, especially for electronic materials, that can later be aggregated to get a better idea of how this would impact the systemwide contract.
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For electronic resources, the option of linking to CZ records is a possibility that may not have been well understood during the initial contract negotiations and Alma configuration. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1zZZ0J8sONfLtRJQ3SgvKeTYlweKF4iej Analysis of OCLC records compared to CZ records indicates… ???indicates some vendors have ~50% without subject headings, but full title info. deGruyter has much better quality records than this ratio, and we’re looking forward to analyzing additional vendors.
Options Considered [remove if not needed]
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