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SERHOLD_

October 1993

Background

SERHOLD is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) database of
machine-readable holdings statements for serial titles held by U.S.
and selected Canadian biomedical libraries, primarily members of the
NLM-supported National Network of Libraries of Medicine_ (NN/LM_).
These holdings statements are linked to NLM's authoritative
bibliographic data. SERHOLD was developed primarily to serve as the
basis for DOCLINE_, NLM's online interlibrary loan request and
referral system for health sciences libraries. It is also used to
generate a variety of union list products and is the basis for
location information in SERLINE_ and Health Sciences Serials. As of
August 1993, the database included approximately 1,286,000 holdings
statements for about 39,000 serial titles from over 3,160 health
sciences libraries. The database also contains biomedical holdings
of CISTI, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information,
the Canadian MEDLARS_ Center.

SERHOLD has been constructed by the merger of existing machine-
readable holdings data from more than 20 files as well as new
machine-readable holdings data created expressly for this project.
Additionally, NLM has the capability of transferring holdings data
from OCLC MARC and USMARC tapes to SERHOLD. The database is updated
semi-annually from tapes produced by participating databases and
institutions. Each of the eight Regional Libraries in the NN/LM is
responsible for the collection and coordination of the data for its
region.

NLM has developed an online updating system which can be used by the
regional SERHOLD coordinators to view, add, update or delete
records. This system became available in October 1993.
Data collected are stored in NLM's computer and are not distributed
in machine-readable form without the permission of the participating
institutions or their representatives.

Titles Included

Participants are limited to reporting holdings for serial titles
that are in NLM's SERLINE database. SERLINE contains over 80,000
serial titles. For the past several years, the database has been
augmented by the addition of non-NLM titles held in the NN/LM
regions. Titles are reported to NLM with appropriate bibliographic
documentation and added to SERLINE if they meet the criteria for
addition. Serials reported must be available for interlibrary loan
and provide information needed by health care professionals and
health sciences library personnel in the course of their work.
Serials designed for recreational reading will not be included.
Participants and Reporting Requirements.

Eligible SERHOLD participants may include any U.S. library which
provides health care and biomedical information resources to health
professionals or health sciences library personnel and assists them
in fulfilling their roles as administrators, educators, researchers
or practicing health professionals.

Reporting requirements include adherence to the standard tape format
described in NLM's "Format for Direct Transmission of Holdings Data
to the National Library of Medicine's SERHOLD Database."* The
format is based on "American National Standard for Information
Sciences Serial Holdings Statements," as developed in 1986 (Z39.42-
1986), but allows for the incorporation of existing machine-readable
data in nonstandard format. In addition to records coded in SERHOLD
format, NLM also accepts OCLC MARC format and USMARC format.
Contact the Serial Records Section at NLM for further information on
the procedures for submitting records in these formats.

As of August 1993, 88 percent of the data in SERHOLD are encoded at
the summary level 3 and can be interpreted at the volume and year
level in the DOCLINE system. All reporting institutions must use
the NLM title control number as the bibliographic link to the NLM
database and the NLM-assigned SERHOLD codes as an institutional
identifier. All participants must contact the Holdings Data
Coordinator in their region for specific instructions before
reporting to NLM.

Products

SERHOLD is the source of the locator information (i.e., location
code only) for serial titles in resource libraries and other major
collections that appears in NLM's products Health Sciences Serials
and SERLINE.

Annually, after the loading of new or updated holdings to the
database, Regional Libraries also may request union list products to
supplement existing regional publications.

Union lists are available in COM (Computer-Output-Microform), hard
copy, or in machine-readable form. Larger lists may be available in
COM or machine-readable form only. NLM produces one master copy of
each COM or hard copy regional and state list. These masters are
distributed to the Regional Libraries or their designates who are
responsible for reproduction and distribution.

*Copies available from Dianne McCutcheon, Technical Services
Division, NLM.
Regional Holdings Data Coordinators

Region 1
Robert Dempsey (212) 427-1630
Medical Library Center
of New York

Region 2
Barbara Coon (410) 706-2855
University of Maryland

Region 3
Kim Goldman (312) 996-2464
University of Illinois at
Chicago

Region 4
Claire Gadzikowski (402) 559-4326
University of Nebraska

Region 5
Sherry Porter (817) 735-2467
Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

Region 6
Nancy Press (206) 543-8262
University of Washington

Region 7
Irene Lovas (213) 825-1200
UCLA

Region 8
Robert Dempsey (212) 427-1630
Medical Library
Center of New York


  3 Responses to “Category : Various Text files
Archive   : NLM-INFO.ZIP
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