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• Reference Services
• September 2006
• Issue: 205

OCLC eSerials Holdings and Serials Sloutions

Now available to OCLC member libraries is the eSerials Holdings service - an efficient, cost-effective way to make your electronic content more visible and accessible. Working in partnership with serials management providers, such as Serials Solutions, OCLC automatically sets and maintains your electronic serials holdings information at the journal title level against existing electronic serials MARC records in WorldCat.

The OCLC eSerials Holdings service:

• Increases usage of your electronic serials collection by making it more visible to searchers and ILL librarians.
• Cost-effectively keeps your electronic serials holdings up to date in WorldCat without adding to your cataloging workload.
• Increases the value of your investment in A-Z lists, OpenURL resolver, and WorldCat.
• Enables you to automatically control and/or deflect ILL requests from colleagues in the OCLC cooperative.
• Helps bridge the gap between print and electronic materials.

Find out more about the OCLC/Serials Solutions connection at http://nylink.org/coop/OCLCss.htm.

Cooperative Services Contact Information

Please contact Tatiana Sahm (sahmt@nylink.org), Jen Stelling (stellingj@nylink.org), or Daniel Towne (towned@nylink.org) at Nylink with your questions. They are available via email or phone (800-342-3353 / 518-443-5444).