Monograph tables of contents in support of acquisitions and online catalog access

摘要

Traditional bibliographic description yields bibliographic records that do not provide adequate access to information resources. In the realm of serials, an entire industry has been built to improve access to the contents of serial publications that libraries catalog only by title. This industry consists of "secondary" information services that provide abstracting, indexing and other services to facilitate the user's search for and retrieval of relevant information from the vast body of serial literature. However, because most of the products produced by secondary services depend upon the availability of the actual articles contained in serial publications, there is a significant time delay from initial availability of the serial issue and the abstracts and index entries that serve as finding tools for the issue.