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How to produce list of electronic resources in aleph for alma migration

 

  • Product: Aleph
  • Product Version: 20, 21, 22, 23
  • Relevant for Installation Type: Dedicated-Direct, Direct, Local, Total Care

 

Question    
How to output electronic-resource bib records from Aleph for Alma -- with only one entry for each xxx01 bib record -- that is, a "P2E List", as required by Alma.

 

Answer    
The following script (created by Ex Libris) was used successfully at one Aleph site: 

set echo off 
set pause off 
set term off 
set show off 
set feed off 
set verify off 
set heading off 
set linesize 25 
set pagesize 50000 

spool onlin.portfolio.lst 

SELECT /*+ DYNAMIC_SAMPLING(2) ALL_ROWS */ distinct 'XXX01' || Z13_REC_KEY || ' ,Portfolio' from XXX01.Z13, XXX50.Z30, XXX50.Z103 where Z13_REC_KEY = substr (Z103_REC_KEY_1,6,9) and substr (Z103_REC_KEY_1,1,5) = 'XXX01' and substr (Z103_REC_KEY,6,9) = substr (Z30_REC_KEY,1,9) and z30_collection = 'ONLIN' order by 1; 

spool off 
exit

 

The output from the above SQL might look like this:

  XXX01000000123,Portfolio

  XXX01000000872,Portfolio

  XXX01000001963,Portfolio

  XXX01000002694,Portfolio

 

Note:  This was a small site which had few or no resources of types "Package" or "DB" (the other Alma Resource Types):  they were all "Portfolio".  The Physical to Electronic (P2E) Conversion Process tutorial describes these three types: 

   1. Portfolio:  single title, purchased online in full text

   2. Package: a group of journal titles bundled together by the vendor

   3. DB:  for searching article/title info  (These are collections without portfolios, such as indexing and abstracting databases, which may be linked to bibliographic records for discovery purposes.)  (Examples:  Proquest Social Science Database or EBSCO Literary Reference Center Database.)

 

The article "How to put SQL output into a spreadsheet" may be relevant.

 


  • Article last edited: 02-Mar-2016
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