Do I need a marc record file? I see "Import marc records", but it asks me for a file. If I require a MARC file, do I need to contact Springer to give me this file? OR is there another way? Thank you, On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Susan Mustafa <susan.mustafa@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi Indranil,
How do you import Marc21 records from the Springer DBs?? I am really unsure of how to connect Koha + Springer together and how to do "batch download"?
Please walk me through the steps or direct me to an article explaining this?
Do I need a z39.50 server or how?? :)
Thank you,
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Indranil Das Gupta <indradg@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi Susan,
2010/3/7 Susan Mustafa <susan.mustafa@gmail.com>:
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At the moment, our Institute is registered with Springer, for 14k or 15k of online e-books. My library director has requested me to look into whether Koha can do automatic batch downloading of all those e-books into our KOHA system, with "MARC Records" created for them.
One of my clients' - West Bengal University of Technology, are subscribed to Springer ebooks for copyright years 2005, 2006 and 2007, approx 13k of ebooks. Never faced any problem with importing the Springer Marc21 records from their site into my client's Koha installation. The DOI links in the Springer Marc file are preserved as the URI sub-tag `u` of 956 of each individual ebook record.
So an user browsing the OPAC can click the link and will be taken to the content on Springer site (my client uses campus IP based authentication).
Now honestly, I am new to Koha, so I have no idea if this is feasible or not, that's why I am asking you guys :)
From my experience, it just works, however YMMV
hth :)
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