Community Zone Monograph Records Enrichment

 

Ex Libris’ legal team reviews each potential provider MARC record set separately for enrichment and inclusion in the Community Zone. Because MARC records are an integral part of vendors’ business models, and Community Zone records are open to use and editing by members of the Alma community, this review is necessary before the addition of any new provider MARC records to the Community Zone.

 

In many cases, Ex Libris will also need to sign agreements with providers regarding records to be loaded into the Community Catalog.

 

Please note that this legal review, including intellectual property issues, must be done even if a provider’s MARC records are freely available for personal or library institutional use on a provider’s website. If you are a provider who contracts a third party to create MARC records, it is important to review the details of those contracts, to confirm that you have the rights to redistribute those records to another party.

 

When reviewing Community Zone records, you can see the latest source of provider MARC record enrichment in the Originating system. (Please note that this is the latest source; as noted earlier, some records will also potentially have information from multiple provider sources.)

 

For example, this record was last enriched using a ProQuest Ebook Central MARC21 record:

The following is a list of provider MARC record sources in the Community Zone, with their associated Originating system, if available. We will continue updating this table to add additional Originating systems, and new provider record sources in the future.

 

Update December 2023: Added Kluwer Health, Adam Matthew, and Canada Commons record sets

Update July 2023: Added McGraw Hill and Docuseek record sets

Update June 2023: Added ProQuest Acta Sanctorum, Patrologia Latina, and NBER record sets