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Introduction |
Access GMIR |
This edition of GPO Marc Internet Resources includes records from the folowing original sources:
GPO Marc and GPO/Access' Browse Electronic Title records are interfiled in SuDoc Classification Number order. No attempt has been made to combine or remove duplicate records. Similarly, no attempt has been made to correct URL's known to be incorrect or no longer useful.
2) By a list of government authors arranged by government author name
Libraries implementing Web-based OPACs which make the URL links in the 856 field "live" have discovered that many of the links are no longer valid. Some libraries have started to implement procedures for URL maintenance, others are trying to work out their procedures, and still others have all of this before them. The absence of appropriate tools for libraries in the Federal Depository Library Program to assist in this process has prompted a new BDLD publication - GPO Marc Internet Resources (GMIR).
GPO Marc Internet Resources (GMIR), is an inventory of the more than 4,300 unique GPO Marc bibliographic records issued during the period January 1995 through the end of August, 1998. In the 2,150 cases where the record was issued more than once, the record of last use is used in GPO Marc Internet Resources.
The immediate purpose of GMIR is to provide some context for the rapidly increasing number of catalog records which, in all likelihood, will ultimately provide the greatest single source of library-maintained links or pointers to the electronic resources of the United States government. GMIR is arranged like the BDLD List of Classes - by Superintendent of Documents class number. Records in GMIR are abbreviated to show the fields most associated with internet access. The following data elements are displayed if they exist in the original record:
Additionally, an InterCat/OCLC PURL Resolver (URL: http://purl.oclc.org/ ) type PURL (Persistent Uniform Resource Locator) has been added to the display. The 856 URL and the OCLC PURL are live-linked for purposes of link testing on the GMIR files and to provide electronic access if the URL is correct.
Many of the URL's in this edition of GMIR are PURLS from GPO/LPS' PURL resolver (URL: http://purl.gpo.gov/ ). As of September 21, 1998 more than 1,750 GPO PURLS have been created in this resolver.
Access to records in GMIR is possible in a browse mode in the following ways:
GMIR is not meant to be an authority for "correct" URLs nor is it an alternative to GPO/LPS' Browse Titles pages. GMIR merely shows the URLs as distributed via GPO-Marc. This is an experimental publication with no regularity. If subsequent versions are created, there may be changes in both scope and presentation. I hope librarians will find GPO-Marc Internet Resources useful, helpful, or at least, of interest.
Tom Tyler
Associate Director for Budget & Technical Planning
University of Denver Library
Denver, CO 80208
ttyler@du.edu
303-871-3334 (w)
303-871-3446 (fax)
September 21, 1998
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