How should libraries catalog books that exist in both digital and print editions (hence including OA and TA editions)? A task force has developed guidelines. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) From its report, December 19, 2008:
The Provider-Neutral E-Monograph Record Task Group was formed shortly after the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Library Association. The group's charge was to develop a monographic cataloging policy that would provide for a single electronic MARC bibliographic record to represent an online resource that is available from one or more providers. This proposal is only concerned with separate MARC records for the electronic resource-- it does not address the addition of electronic fields to the print record, otherwise known as the "Single Record Approach." The proposal is intended to encompass records for monographic titles which are simultaneously issued in print and online, digital reproductions of print resources, and born-digital resources. All e-monographic resources cataloged on OCLC should follow the Provider-Neutral (P-N) model from Day One, even if the resource is available from only one provider at the time of cataloging. E-monograph records created by the DLF Registry of Digital Masters should be combined with records from other providers onto the one P-N e-monograph record. Separate records may be created at the national level, whenever the cataloger determines that the content of a new digital manifestation is significantly different. Catalogers are also free to use the Single-Record Approach, at both the national and local levels....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/18/2009 01:37:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
