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Documents Without Shelves:
Bringing Your Users Full Text US Government Documents
Joan Chapa
Documents Without Shelves (DWS)
What message is your catalog giving patrons about government documents?
Provide timely access to government documents
…without having to shelve a thing!
• All MARC records containing URLs or PURLs
• Can receive any record with a URL or limit to “Internet-only” titles
• General (all titles) or law library (subset)
• Backfile available
What is covered in DWS?
• Agriculture• Business• Commerce• Consumer information• Medicine• Defense• Criminal justice• Education• National parks, maps, foreign relations, taxation…
and lots more
Who gets DWS?
• Academic libraries
• Public libraries
• Corporate libraries
• Law libraries
• Governmental libraries
• Libraries with a need for government information but without the shelf space to store them
How many records would you receive?
• Backfile available
• As of December 2010 there are 132,455 records with URLS. 68,939 are “Internet only” titles.
Ongoing service Standard Service: Average # of
records per month
Law Subset: Average # of
records per month
Online only, new only 812 405Online only, new & changed 1,184 641All URLs/PURLs, new only 819 407All URLs/PURLs, new & changed 1,243 666
Sample record
Wind power [electronic resource] ; today & tomorrow / produced for the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
MOCAT # / REC #: 99154340 OCLC #: ocm55858161ITEM #: 0429-A (online) SUDOCS #: E 1.2:2004023750 TITLE: Wind power [electronic resource] : today & tomorrow / produced for the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. PUBLICATION INFO: Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program, [2004] NOTE: Mode of access: Internet from the NREL web site. Address as of 7/7/04: http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti /34915.pdf; current access available via PURL. NOTE: Title from title screen (viewed on July 7, 2004). SUBJECT: Wind power - United States. SUBJECT: Wind power industry - United States. SUBJECT: Wind Energy Program (U.S.) OTHER AGENCY: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.) OTHER AGENCY: Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program (U.S.) WEB ACCESS: http://purl.access.gpo.gov /GPO/LPS51287
Actual document
Why load these records into your catalog?
• More access points
• No need to bookmark websites
• No need to download one by one and edit
• ARL libraries can include them in statistics
• Inexpensive way to add a lot of resources
Cost of Documents Without Shelves
• Backfile available at $0.05/bib record
• Consortium pricing available
• Options include matching authority records
• Ongoing subscription is charged at $1,525/year or $1,575/year with a report
Let MARCIVE help you provide better access to government information!
Contact MARCIVE for
detailed information
pricing
www.marcive.com
1-800-531-7678