Academic and reference books publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced that from February 2010 the MARC records for many of its products will be generated by Bibliographic Data Services.
MARC21 records are now available for all titles in OUP’s online products and downloadable for the entire collection or on a module by module basis. For all future updates, all MARC records will be in MARC21 format. Improved MARC 21 records have been made available on OUP online products including Oxford Reference Online (ORO), Oxford Digital Reference Shelf (DRS), Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO), Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO) and Oxford Medical Handbooks Online (OMHO). OUP will now ensure that MARC21 records are available for all of its book-based online products in time for their online release.
OUP had sought to have a catalogue record available for every digital publication and to ensure that the user of that catalogue could travel seamlessly from such a record to the online resource itself. MARC was reportedly key to this.
MARC records are claimed to be catalogued to ‘full’ level according to AACR2 guidelines. They are compliant with NACO and SACO, and relevant LoC guidelines for e-books and updating databases, and contain LoC and Dewey call numbers, in MARC21 format with MARC8 character encoding.
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