[Koha] Inquiry: Batch download e-books from Springer Database to KOHA with Marc-Records

[Susan Mustafa]

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 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Susan,
>
> 2010/3/7 Susan Mustafa <susan.mustafa at gmail.com>:
>
> [snipped]
>
> > 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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