Known problems with vendor ebook records

     (under construction as we used to say)

Serials Solutions

     Serials records are incorrectly coded as 'computer files' in the leader. This is old cataloging. Current CONSER rules are to code as serials (LDR code s) and code the 007 for electronic resource ($a=c and $b=r). SS seems to have the 007 correct just not the LDR.

Alexander Street Press

     no collation and reproduction notes

     no LC subjects - they use 655 genre

     the vendor series are in 440 in some records and in a 500/730 pair

Gale Virtual Reference (GVLR)

     No 300 field

          rather they have both a 533 and a 534 (info from 534 should really be in the 300)

          we have set CUNY+ to display the 534 with the label "Description" as the 300 would have been labeled

     Blank encoding level - we would prefer I

     Blank source - [008 position 39] we would prefer d

Oxford Scholarship Online

[note: Oxford recently (09/09) sent samples of records for ebooks that are far superior to the ones received by CUNY in the past. We will have to see how future records look. In the meantime the following applies to records loaded prior to 09/09}

     gmd (subfield h) in wrong place (after subfield c rather than between $$a and $$b)

     no subject headings on many records

     533 - the same exact one in every record - the reproduction date of 2004 appears even in books published in 2008

     504 has biographical references rather than bibliographical references

ECCO

     006 position 9 is coded j for online system or service - each individual title is a book or pamphlet NOT a system and should be coded d for document

     the symbols for folio are not always formatted correcly for OPAC display.

Springer

     Coded as computer file rather than book

     No information about reproduction date, extent of publication, description, etc.

     Springer says the free records what they are - you can buy good ones from OCLC !

     [need to go over fixed fields]