Subject: Re: Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
Gerry Mckiernan (GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:27:28 -0500
Message-Id: <s7bbea40.019@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:27:28 -0500 From: "Gerry Mckiernan" <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu> To: arl-ejournal@arl.org Subject: Re: Cataloging of Multimedia E-Journals
Hi Bernhard/
On 08/19/99, Bernhard Eversberg <ev@buch.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Gerry McKiernan <gerrymck@iastate.edu> wrote:
> >
> > From this brief survey, I've concluded that catalogers in general
> > are not aware of the multimedia dimensions of such journals and that
> > journals such as these would be difficult to identify due to the lack
> > of standard and uniform description of the multimedia.
>
> First of all, one has to *become* aware of the new dimensions an
> e-journal has taken on.
Yes! My hope is that is more and more of my colleagues will become
aware of the increasing use of multimedia in general and its growing
use in e-journals.
> Nobody can go to every e-journal site every day and monitor the
> changes that occur and new services implemented overnight. (As well
> as changes in URLs, as goes without saying -- a big enough headache.)
My observation here relate to the original cataloging of e-journals
that are established with a multimedia component with the first issue.
[With changes, one would hope that the various link checkers might
be of some value here (but perhaps not) [?]].
> You are all invited to look at the e-journal listings we have set up
> and revise at least one a week, at
>
> http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/CoOL/
I am *so* pleased to know that you have informed others of this
resource!
> You get a table of some 45 subject areas, like "PY Physik" or "ME
> Medizin" (headlines in German). On each of the subject pages,
> there's a link to "E-Zeitschriften". On each of those pages, you
> can search for "multimedia".
This is a *very* nice feature!
> All titles on Gerry's list are contained, in fact we took the trouble
> to make sure we have them all.
Thanks for your interest in my work! [:-)]
Thanks again for your response!
Regards,
/Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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