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

[Susan Mustafa]

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 at 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 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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>>
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