NZ/IZ linking in consortia
Background: MARC 776 is used to establish a link between related records (Also available in another form:). If a link cannot be established, a title search is started instead.
In a consortial environment, there is an issue with this: Primo VE is only able to establish a link if both the linking and the linked-to title are available locally. This happens because Primo depends on Alma functionality for related records to establish a link and Alma is building them within institution scope only (Network is considered just another institution in this regard). This means that as soon as only the linking title is available in an IZ, a title search will be started.
To give an example: We have a journal with the main title “Recht” (Law), which links to an electronic version of the same title. In IZ that do not have the electronic version, a title search for Recht/law will be started instead, leading to over 27’000 results – from a link that promised to lead to a different version of the same title. See also pdf below.
This behaviour makes 776 largely unusable for consortia, where it would be important for that our patrons are able to find resources that are not available locally as well or where we’d at least want a system that can recognize if something is locally available and only displays the link in this case.
Jahn Sievers
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Manu_Schwendener
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What Jahn describes above leads to the following strange situation in our IZ, which is part of the same consortium.
We have deduplication deaktivated in our view.
In some cases, a link from 776 is created automatically, and works as expected
shows a link “Available in other form“, which links to this online version
https://basel.swisscovery.org/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=41SLSP_UBS:live&search_scope=UBS&tab=UBS&docid=alma9972335550005504&lang=en&context=L&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&query=any,contains,education&facet=tlevel,include,available_p&facet=rtype,include,journals&offset=0The field responsible for this is a 776 $t
https://basel.swisscovery.org/discovery/sourceRecord?vid=41SLSP_UBS:live&docId=alma998305080105504&recordOwner=41SLSP_NETWORK776 08$iErscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe $tAnthropology & education quarterly
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In many cases, we add a $x to the 776 field
https://ubs.swisscovery.slsp.ch/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=41SLSP_UBS:live&search_scope=UBS&tab=UBS&docid=alma99972970105504&lang=en&context=L776 08$iErscheint auch als $nOnline-Ausgabe $tRecht $x2504-1487
As we're in a consortium, all IZs see the same 776 fields. But that link only works in the IZs which _have_ the online version with ISSN 2504-1487.
What I would expect: that there is a check for this, and the link is not active, but the information stays visible, when the value in $x does not exist in the same IZ.
(Or, if that is not possible: 776 is hidden when the value in $x does not exist in the same IZ.)
What acutally happens: if no link via $x is possible, a title search is started.
Which leads to unusable results. Which means we had to suppress the display of all 776 with $x, also in the IZs where the link would work correctly.
This is an unsatisfying situation.