[Koha] Help Re: Journal Articles

[Paul]

At 09:43 AM 7/8/2013 -0400, King, Fred wrote:
>Hello Alice, and everyone,
>
>Funny you should bring this up. I was planning to bring it up myself a 
>while later after we got our system running smoothly, but this seems like 
>a good time since we're not the only ones interested in this kind of a project.

We're also interested in serial indexing in Koha.  At the moment, we are 
using our "old" web indexing from a direct 856u and 856z link in Koha (see 
example at 
<http://opac.navalmarinearchive.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=19275>) 
but given that we hold about half a million journals and periodicals, this 
is not the most elegant solution, and requires substantial manual 
intervention for ongoing subscriptions.

I would be quite prepared to put some time and effort into a "Koha solution."

Best - Paul


>A few years ago, we started Authors' Day, a celebration of Hospital Center 
>associates who have written articles, book chapters, etc. Last year, we 
>started tracking the articles in Reference Manager so we could analyze the 
>data a bit more, and include subject headings, etc., in the citations. The 
>next step is to put the data into Koha to make it widely and easily 
>accessible to anyone on the hospital network. Who knows? Someday we might 
>be able to make it available outside our firewall as well.
>
>My idea is to install a second instance of Koha on our server (I did it 
>already on a test system, so that's not a major problem) and use it 
>exclusively for local authors. Just about everything our associates 
>publish is in Medline, so one of the things we're pondering is how to 
>convert MeSH to MARC. Like Alice, we've looked at analytics and we don't 
>think that's the solution.
>
>Some of the other things we're considering include:
>* We're only interested in indexing local authors, but we ought to include 
>the non-local co-authors in the record.
>* We want to differentiate between journal article, book, chapter, etc. 
>Maybe Item Types?
>* There's also the consideration of what kind of journal article--case 
>report, letter, randomized controlled trial, etc. Maybe Collection Code?
>* Right now we're indexing articles from three MedStar divisions, but 
>eventually we'd consider adding other hospitals. Different branches?
>* We also want to include departmental affiliation.
>
>So I guess my question is, has anyone else done something like this? Can 
>anyone offer any pointers?
>
>BTW, the actual conversion of one set of tags to another is not all that 
>difficult. I found a program called Replace Text that you can set up to 
>look for every instance of xxx and convert it to yyy, for multiple values 
>of xxx and yyy. I'm sure there are others.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Fred King
>Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
>fred.king at medstar.net
>202-877-6221
>
>---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
>Subject: [Koha] Help Re: Journal Articles
>From:    "Alice Esguerra" <kaces08 at gmail.com>
>Date:    Mon, July 8, 2013 12:33 am
>To:      koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>We are new with Koha, we started 2 years ago with Koha 2.9 and recently
>migrated to Koha 3.12 (May of this year).
>
>My concern is about our periodical indexes. We have manually encoded about
>1000 records of indexes to journal and magazine articles. I'd like to
>create a MARC framework for this. Can somebody please help us as to what
>MARC tags to use for the framework? I have seen the discussion about
>"Analytics" but I don't think this is applicable to us because we only
>prepared records for the "component articles" while the "parent or host
>item" (for journals) were not recorded in our OPAC. Our objective is to
>make a simple framework that is searchable and wouldn't have any conflict
>with the MARC rules.
>
>We really hope to hear from you. Thank you in advance!
>
>alice
>
>
>--
>Alicia C. Esguerra
>Associate Professor I/ Librarian
>Bulacan State University
>City of Malolos, Bulacan 3000
>Philippines
>+63 044 7961417
>www.bulsu.edu.ph
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