Week 10: Cataloguing of Non-Book Materials

Some of the example of the non book materials are like:

a.        Sound recordings

b.       Video recordings

c.        Cartographic materials

The general information the contain in non –book materials are:

a.        Title and statement of responsibility:

·                     Transcribe only statements of responsibility that relate to the intellectual content of the work

b.       Publication information:

·                     Date of publication:

c.        Physical description:

·                     Extent of item

·                     Give the playing time of the recording as stated:

·                     Dimensions:

d.       Notes

·                     Nature of performance

·                     Source of title proper

·                     Edition and history

·                     Publishers’ numbers

·                     Contents

·                     Summary

The example of term of non-book materials

VHS tapes           videocassette

DVCam tapes     videocassette

DVDs     videodisc

Laser discs           videodisc

VCDs     videodisc

floppy disk          computer disk

CD-ROM              computer optical disc

DVD-ROM           computer optical disc

CD(music or spoken)      sound disc

cassette tapes sound cassette

Reference :

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/catmet/procedures/books/bks-w-nonbk.html

http://www.neoslibraries.ca/document/Tech/CatNon-Book.pdf

Week 9: Short Review of DBMS- Scopus

Short review on Data Base Management System in UTM : Scopus

a.    Features of the system

Features and functionality designed to support and improve researchers’ workflow, including:

• A simple and intuitive interface.
• Linking to full-text articles and other library resources.
• Author Identifier to automatically match an author’s published research including the h-index.
• Citation Tracker to simply find, check and track citations in real-time.
• Affiliation Identifier to automatically identify and match an organization with all its research output.
• Journal Analyzer provides a quick insight into journal performance.
• Alerts, RSS and HTML feeds to stay up-to-date.
• Document Download Manager to easily download and organize multiple full-text articles simultaneously.
• Interoperability with SciVerse ScienceDirect, Reaxis and ProQuest’s CSA Illumina.
• Data export via bibiliographic managers such as RefWorks, EndNote and BibTeX.

b.    How system can help UTM to effectively manage the date and information of staff or students?

Using Scopus as a researcher you can:

• Find out who is citing you, and how many citations an article or an author has received.
• Analyze citations for a particular journal issue, volume or year.
• Use this information to complete grant or other applications quickly and easily.
• Use the refine results overview to quickly see the main journals, disciplines and authors that publish in your area of interest.
• Uncover important and relevant articles that you may otherwise miss.
• Check out the work and citations of other authors.
• Click on the cited by and reference links to track research trends and make connections. You can do this within or across disciplines you are interested in.

Using Scopus as an editor you can:

• Find and evaluate referees and authors for review papers and thematic issues.
• Identify and contact potential editorial board members.
• Monitor journal trends, for example by comparing the current aims and scope of a journal with citation patterns to see if a shift has occurred.
• Review the performance and coverage of new journals quickly, and at your desktop without waiting for them to be indexed in other databases. New journals are covered and citation links created to and from them on a regular basis.

Using Scopus as a librarian you can:

• Offer an easy-to-use, reliable abstract and citation database to your users.
• Link your users quickly and accurately to the full-text articles you've invested in.
• Increase the visibility of and access to other library resources.
• Ensure your users search peer-reviewed, indexed content.
• Analyze highly-cited articles to inform your collection management decisions.

c.    Disadvantages of the system

1.    Overlap issue

·         Meho & Yang (2007) conducted a large-scale comparison between Web of Science, Scopus (Elsevier’s alternative to Thomson ISI’s Web of Science) and Google Scholar covering citations of over 1,000 scholarly works of all 15 faculty members of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University Bloomington between 1996 and 2005.

·         The overlap between Web of Science and Scopus was 58.2%.

·         The overlap between Google Scholar and the union of Web of Science and Scopus was only 30.8%.

·         Google Scholar produced more than twice as many citations as Web of Science and nearly twice as many citations as Scopus.

2.    Unique citations

·         Meho & Yang (2007) conclude that Google Scholar can help identify a significant number of unique citations. These unique citations might not significantly alter one’s citation ranking in comparison to other academics in the same field and might not all be of the same quality as those found in the Web of Science or Scopus.

Reference :

http://www.info.sciverse.com/Home

http://www.harzing.com/pop_gs.htm

Week 9: Number building

Only a fraction of potential DDC numbers are included in the schedules. It is often necessary to build or synthesize a number that is not specifically listed in the schedules. Such built numbers allow for greater depth of content analysis. There are four sources of notation for building numbers:
(A) Table 1 Standard Subdivisions;
(B) Tables 2–6;
(C) other parts of the schedules; and
(D) add tables in the schedules.
Number building is initiated only upon instructions in the schedules (except for the addition of standard subdivisions, which may take place anywhere unless there is an instruction to the contrary). Number building begins with a base number (always stated in the instruction note) to which another number is added.

Week 8: Example of cataloging non-book materials

CD-ROM 1

Mathematics year 3 : length [CD-ROM].

         Kuala Lumpur: Bahangian Teknologi Pendidikan, 2004.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ 1 CD-ROM ;

Suitable for year three pupils based on Mathematics year three syllabus.

System requirements are windows 95 or higher and at least 16MB RAM.

1. Mathematics. 2. Length.

CD-ROM 2

Science form 2: lever [CD-ROM].

         Kuala Lumpur: Bahangian Teknologi Pendidikan, 2003.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ 1 CD-ROM ;

Suitable for form 3 student.

System requirements are pentium windows 95 or upper

At least 16MB RAM or more.

1. Science. 2. Lever.

CD-ROM 3

Science form 3 : blood circulatory [CD-ROM].

         Kuala Lumpur: Bahangian Teknologi Pendidikan, 2003.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ 1 CD-ROM ;

About the systemic and pulmonary blood circulatory system.

Minimum system requirements are Pentium, Windows 95 or upper and at least 16MB RAM.

1. Science. 2. Blood Circulatory System.

Week 8: Example of materials in seriels and other non-books materials

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