Availability of bibliographic records for the UK imprint

Abstract

Various measures exist to determine the quality, however defined, of records in a database or catalogue but there has been less work in developing quality measures for catalogues or databases. UKOLN has carried out work on record quality and catalogue/database performance measurement since 1980. Recently UKOLN has extended its work on the currency of records in the BNB files on the British Library database to a number of other sources of bibliographic records. The results of the Multi‐Source Currency survey presented here have highlighted a number of issues relating to the bibliographic record coverage of the UK imprint.

Citation

Chapman, A. (1999), "Availability of bibliographic records for the UK imprint", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 55 No. 1, pp. 6-15. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000007135