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SUNCAT is the Serials Union CATalogue for the UK research community.

SUNCAT is a free EDINA service enabling researchers, librarians and others to locate serials held in libraries throughout the UK. The catalogue contains information on both print and electronic serials, including journals, periodicals, newspapers, newsletters, magazines, annual reports and other publications of a continuing nature.

SUNCAT currently contains serials' information from over 70 UK research libraries, including the British Library and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales. New libraries continue to be added to the catalogue on a regular basis.

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Case studies demonstrate SUNCAT's impact

Three case studies have been added to the SUNCAT website. These highlight the impact that SUNCAT has had on the work of three different organisations:

- UK Research Reserve (UKRR): SUNCAT used to identify duplication of journal holdings, so enabling libraries to free up space
- North West Libraries Interlending Partnership: SUNCAT used to locate journal articles, hence increasing the supply rates of inter-library loan requests
- Loughborough University Library: SUNCAT provides bibliographic data for upgrading journal records, therefore improving resource discovery

Please take a few minutes to read the studies and discover how you might use SUNCAT to improve or facilitate your services. If you have any questions about the case studies, or would be interested in creating one, please contact the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk.

Posted by SUNCAT Team at 12:03
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