American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Books and Journals migrating to ASME platform
What is Happenning to American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Books and Journals?
Early in 2024 ASTM International and ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) have announced a strategic partnership through which ASME will make ASTM’s Digital Library (books and journals) available via the ASME Digital Collection, powered by the Silverchair platform. The 2 organizations published a document explaining that the ASTM Digital Library migration to the ASME Digital Collection platform, powered by the Silverchair platform, will happen in two phases:
• Phase 1 will go live in early 2024, and the content will be dual-hosted on ASTM and ASME platforms.
• Phase 2 will be finalized later in 2024, when the ASTM Digital Library content will be fully hosted on ASME Silverchair. Our goal is to provide end users with a seamless transition, resulting in minimal to no interruptions to access.
Ex Libris is working closely with both providers to reflect these changes for our mutual customers. To support the first phase during which the content is hosted on both platforms, we released 2 new collections:
| Collection Name | Alma ID | 360 DB ID | SFX ID |
| ASTM Books in ASME Digital Library | 61546197590000041 | AHOHA | 546197590000041 |
| ASTM Journals in ASME Digital Library | 61546197570000041 | AAVIS | 546197570000041 |
Please note that as of January 2024, there is still no automation mechanism for updating these 2 new collections, because provider does not yet have a dedicated automatically-generated title list that can be picked up for updates. Until this issue is resolved, we will rely on the title lists provider will be supplying to us pro-actively.
The latest update from both ASTM and ASME is that "ASTM plans to remove all Books and Journal content from the Compass platform in the Summer of 2025. At that point, all ASTM Books and Journals content will live exclusively on the ASME Digital Collections. We are still working with ASME to determine how and when they will be sending ASTM metadata to discovery service providers inclusive of ASTM content". This means that until Summer 2025, Ex Libris continues getting the metadata feed for Summon and Primo from ASTM.
We will update this article to reflect any additional changes in our knowledgebases and indexes that might accompany this migration process.
- Article last edited: 20-JAN-2025