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Union catalog

This article will address the topic of Union catalog, which has sparked great interest and debate in various areas. Union catalog is a relevant topic that has captured the attention of specialists, academics, professionals and the general public, due to its importance and relevance today. Throughout this article, different aspects of Union catalog will be analyzed, such as its origins, impact, implications and possible future developments. Likewise, the opinions of experts in the field will be discussed, as well as relevant experiences and cases related to Union catalog. Finally, reflections and conclusions will be proposed that invite reflection and debate on this significant topic.

A union catalog is a combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of libraries. Union catalogs have been created in a range of media, including book format, microform, cards and more recently, networked electronic databases. Print union catalogs are typically arranged by title, author or subject (often employing a controlled vocabulary); electronic versions typically support keyword and Boolean queries. Union catalogs are useful to librarians, as they assist in locating and requesting materials from other libraries through interlibrary loan service. They also allow researchers to search through collections to which they would not otherwise have access, such as manuscript collections.

The largest union catalog ever printed is the American National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints (NUC), completed in 1981. This achievement has since been superseded by the creation of union catalogs in the form of electronic databases, of which the largest is OCLC's WorldCat. Other examples include K10plus in Germany, Library Hub Discover (formerly COPAC) provided by Research Libraries UK and AMICUS, provided by Library and Archives Canada.

For academic publications, several academic search engines exist to combine the open data provided by open archives through OAI-PMH, as well as records from publishers deposited in CrossRef and other sources. They include BASE, CORE and Unpaywall, which indexes over 20 million open access publications as of 2020.

See also

References

  1. ^ Beall, Jeffrey; Kafadar, Karen (2005). "The Proportion of NUC Pre-56 Titles Represented in OCLC WorldCat". College & Research Libraries. 66 (5): 431–435. doi:10.5860/crl.66.5.431.
  2. ^ "About AMICUS". Archived from the original on 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
  3. ^ Dhakal, Kerry (2019-04-15). "Unpaywall". Journal of the Medical Library Association. 107 (2): 286–288. doi:10.5195/jmla.2019.650. PMC 6466485.


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