From: Mark Doyle <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:24:30 -0400

Hi,

American Physical Society journal holdings are available in KBART
format from http://harvest.aps.org/holdings/kbart.tsv - let us know if
there is something that can be improved here. We don't get very many
requests for this (only one previously).

Best regards,
Mark

Mark Doyle
Director, Journal Information Systems
American Physical Society



On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:57 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 05:38:30 +0000
>
> We are moving to OCLC's WMS system, which makes extensive use of KBART
> files. We have been using for about two years Ebsco's EDS.
>
> We are finding that the majority of our e-providers do not use KBART
> format and we have to go through various contortions to get those
> files into a form that the WMS system can use.
>
> Could I make a plea for both the more widespread availability of KBART
> files (transforming Mrc files to KBART is not fun!)  and the setting
> up of regular feeds from publishers with the various discovery
> services  of e content of their metadata?
>
> A number of  providers of e-content are also holding back or not
> cooperating much in p;providing  the discovery services metadata that
> could  be utilized  in those systems, thus Amira's emails.
>
> As a result these search systems often use very scant metadata as
> Amira Aaron has rightly pointed out, or in what I consider the worst
> of situations, the old Z39.50 engines  provide services to Discovery
> users. Surely publishers want their data exposed with more fidelity
> and relevancy to the search, than Z engines provide. It makes it look
> like you don't have content you really do when Z interfaces are the
> main engines of discovery.
>
> P.S. We have been quite impressed with both the WMS discovery system
> and EDS. They do a great job with the content they can index directly.
> And every time we've looked at Summons, have been impressed as well. I
> admit i'm not as familiar with other of the Discovery services.  But
> all these services which serve libraries rely on various levels of
> metadata and regular feeds at that, to provide their services. I hope
> more e-content providers will continue to come on board so these
> systems can become ever more robust.
>
> I realize this can be a sensitive subject, no provider wants to lobby
> publicly or admit to limitations in their systems, so it takes
> librarians speaking up. to focus on the issue of sufficient provision
> of metadata or full text where appropriate supplying the discovery
> services.
>
> Chuck Hamaker