[CODE4LIB] e-journals lists, database lists

2012-05-24 Thread Tod Olson
Code4Lib, What, short of a full-blown ERM, are you using to manage and provide your e-journals lists and database lists? We're looking for something that we can use for just a couple years. We already have the data in a database, and would like to dump it into something and have the lists and

Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journals lists, database lists

2012-05-24 Thread James RW MacDonald
You may want to take a look at Simon Fraser University's CUFTS product: http://researcher.sfu.ca/cufts/erm It is open-source. Cheers James RW MacDonald, MLIS Digital Initiatives Librarian University of Northern British Columbia P: 250-960-6601 On 2012-05-24, at 11:44 AM, Tod Olson wrote: >

Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journals lists, database lists

2012-05-24 Thread Tom Cramer
Tod, We catalog our 1100 "curated" databases in our ILS, and then created a custom view in Blacklight to show these to patrons and librarians alike. This way they are integrated into the next generation catalog, but the tailored view lets us decorate their presentation with short summaries of w

Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journals lists, database lists

2012-05-24 Thread Dave Caroline
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Tod Olson wrote: > Code4Lib, > > What, short of a full-blown ERM, are you using to manage and provide your > e-journals lists and database lists? > > We're looking for something that we can use for just a couple years. We > already have the data in a database, an

Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journals lists, database lists

2012-05-24 Thread Andrew Darby
Hi Tod, We use SubjectsPlus [1] for the database list; basically, we have a script that exports the data from our III catalog, another script that reads this text file and does inserts/updates to the appropriate tables in SubjectsPlus. The A-Z list is then displayed by SubjectsPlus in its normal

Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journals lists, database lists

2012-05-24 Thread Tod Olson
That's just the sort of thing we had in mind. Thanks! -Tod On May 24, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Andrew Darby wrote: > Hi Tod, > > We use SubjectsPlus [1] for the database list; basically, we have a > script that exports the data from our III catalog, another script that > reads this text file and does