BOOKS JOURNAL ARTICLES
Articles
An Overview
Libraries, irrespective of their nature and stature, spend a substational portion of their annual budgets on current literature--journals and magazine. Valuable journals are preserved as bound volumes for posterior reference. Unless and until select articles are indexed and given access, they will remain un(der)utilized and defeat the very purpose of preserving them, In some libraries, articles from edited works like conference proceedings and memorial volumes included so that contributed articles could be brought into limelight. In the Bibliographic entry-format for monographs, there's a provision for entering the whole Table of Contents (TOC) selectively. If entered here, there's no need for entering articles from the same work. But the only search option available via Article-Search is Review/TOC. While selecting the journals and the articles from them, the enduring value of the articles in terms of intellectual thought content should be the primary criterion for inclusion. Nowadays, e-journals/e-books dominate the e-resources, which no modern library could afford to ignore. If full-text articles are available online for a journal, you had better desist from entering articles from them, and give access to them through the Internet facility. We have provided the same input screen for entering both the articles with a variation in the composition of the Article Code.
- JArtCode
- Each article from a journal is assigned a unique JArtCode, which consists of 12 digits--9999-9999-99-99, where the first four digits stands for the Journal Code, the second four digits for the Year, the next two digits for Issue No, and the last two digits being for the Article Number. So 99 articles could be entered from a particular issue of a journal, which is more than sufficient. You will get the Journal Code when you select a journal from the list. You have to manually enter the Year and Issue No. When you press the botton New, article number will be assigned. After entering the first article, the article code is incremented by the article number.
- BArtCode
- Each contributed article from a book is assigned a unique BArtCode, which consists of 11 digits--99999999-999, where the first eight digits stands for Union Catalog Accession Number(UCAN), and the second three digits for the Article Number. So 999 articles could be entered from a particular book, which is more than sufficient. You have to manually enter UCANumber. When you press the botton New, article number will be assigned automatically. After entering the first article, the article code is incremented by the article number. In the case of Multivolume or Multicopies of a book, only the first volume or copy UCANumber (which is the main record number) should be used.
- ArType (CLEAR)
- Article type should be entered as a single letter from CLEAR--which stands for Contributed article from a book, Letters to the Editor, Editorial, Aarticle proper or feature, and Review/Report. Is it Clear now?
