Japanese E-resource Metadata I ssues

1. Japanese E-resource Metadata Issues Haruko Nakamura Yale University Library Workshop on Electronic Resources Standards and Best Practices CEAL annual meeting pre-conference workshop, 25 March 2014, Philadelphia

2. Outline • Issues: Lack of resources and awareness • Scarce e-resources / contents • No/Poor metadata • ebooks • aggregated databases • Lack of proper procedures and communication

3. Scarce e-resources / contents • Indexing databases are still dominant • Small number of e-books and e-journals • Very few front list titles (新刊)are published as ebooks ↓ • Majority of e-books have been already published in print and many libraries already own them. • Therefore, not many libraries purchase e-books, thus they are not yet familiar withthe Japanese e-book market.

4. Metadata & Functions • Lack of individual links of e-journals and e-books provided • Few vendors provide MARC records for OPAC • Good MARC records, but poor interface function • Confusion of diverse presentation of e-resources (interfaces, access points, metadata, etc.)

5. eBooks • Around 10,000 Japanese commercial e-books available and still growing (mostly science subjects) • Availability of MARC records is not consistent (Many Japanese university libraries use CATP format records instead of MARC records) • Good MARC records, but poor interface function • Transliterated headings • Series headings • Volume number • Subject headings • Collections base links

6. MARC record sample – Beautiful!

7. No transliterations No series access points No subject access points

8. No volume numbers “新日本古典文学大系”as series

9. No Series access points

10. Aggregated Databases • e-books and e-journals in one database • No MARC records are provided • Provides metadata in discovery tools, but.. • No direct links to individual titles or to several individual interfaces • Insufficient metadata? • No ISBN, published year, transliterated titles, etc.

15. Lack of proper procedures and communication • Content updates (added, deleted and changes of titles, etc.) • Who takes care of this and what? • Communication with e-resources librarians (internal) • Vendors and publishers • Japanese resources in databases purchased by outside of East Asia Library? (ex. Medical*Online, Factiva)

16. Annals of Gunma University Graduate School of Health Sciences [Ja] (群馬保健学紀要)

18. Other e-resource issues • Certain contents in database are not available outside Japan • Users have to install client software • Difficult license agreements • Usage statistics not being available • Price

19. Knowledge base Future Access at Yale Univ. E-journal A-Z list Database A-Z list Link Resolver Discovery Service E-journal and E-book MARC records in catalog

20. Conclusion - Working Together With Librarians (liaison to users) and Publishers and Vendors (content creators) ↓ • Increase access points of e-resources • Improve awareness of e-resources among users • Increase the use of e-resources • Librarians can justify subscriptions of e-resources • Everyone wins!

21. Thank you!