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OCLC eSerials Holdings

In partnership with EBSCO, Serials Solutions and TDNet , OCLC’s e-Serials Holdings Service automates the process of setting and maintaining your holdings for ISSN-based electronic serials in WorldCat without adding to your cataloging workload.

When you subscribe to the eSerials Holdings service, OCLC contacts your serials management provider to begin receiving your holdings data for ISSN-based resources. Once the process begins, OCLC automatically sets and maintains journal title level holdings against existing electronic serials MARC records in WorldCat for your collection each month. This collaboration allows you to efficiently contribute your electronic serials holdings to WorldCat and ensure that they’re current, accurate and visible to your users. If your provider is not one of the participating providers, you can contribute your holdings data directly to OCLC. FEATURES: -- Makes your electronic serials collection more visible and increases its usage since the service makes it easier for users and staff to find and use the full-text electronic serials in your collection. --Keeps your electronic serials holdings up to date in WorldCat in a cost-effective, simple and efficient way. --Increases the value of your library’s investments in your electronic serials collection, serials management services (including A to Z lists and Open URL resolvers) and WorldCat. --Builds on systems that you and your users already use like Connexion, OCLC FirstSearch, WorldCat Resource Sharing, and WorldCat Collection Analysis --Allows you to automatically control and/or deflect interlibrary loan requests from colleagues in the OCLC cooperative.