[Koha] Use koha as a reference database

[King, Fred]

I've done something slightly similar. For years, our library has kept track of publications by local authors--mostly journal articles indexed in Medline, but also poster presentations, books, book chapters, etc. Right now the catalog is only available on our hospital intranet, but we're working on making it available to everyone--I hope by later this year.

For further information, see http://www.philobiblios.net/koha. Some of the material is out of date--I realized I could do a few things a lot better than I originally did and had to move some fields around--but you'll get the gist of what I'm working on.

Fred King
Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
fred.king at medstar.net
202-877-6221
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From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of mobam
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 4:24 PM
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Subject: [Koha] Use koha as a reference database

Dear koha-community!

This is an amazing project! Thank you all for it!

We somehow want to divert Koha slightly from its intended use – and we asked
ourselves two questions:

1. Has anyone ever did the same? (My forum search suggests: no)
2. Is it a good idea? Does it make sense? Or are there better alternatives?

First of all, we’re no library and we won’t loan books or any other stuff.
Basically, we 'just' plan to build a comprehensive database of all relevant
bibliographic data in a certain field and continually update it with new
data. This database will mainly contain books, book chapters and journal
articles and some grey literature. For the last two types, we also want to
provide pdf files – if they are open accessible and we have author’s
permisson (if needed). 

Why did we choose Koha? The idea behind our decision was to have a multi
featured user interface, where one is enabled to do professional searches
within a huge list of literature and where the software also provides
additional features. Specifically, we were looking for an OPAC, like the
ones we knew from university libraries. The next rationale for Koha was the
integrated search function for MARC records, in order to get quality
bibliographic data very easily. And last but not least, the possibility to
save or export tha gathered data in a format, that is likely to be used in
the future, so that the work will not turn out to be for nothing at some
point. 

Do you think, what we are planning to do, is a good idea?

Thanks in advance for answers!
mobam



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