SUNCAT Blog

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.

Friday, 29 October 2010

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

  • Cardiff University (25 Oct 10)
  • CONSER (27 Oct 10)
  • Edinburgh Napier University (21 Oct 10)
  • Edinburgh University (21 Oct 10)
  • Exeter University (14 Oct 10)
  • Kingston University (19 Oct 10)
  • Liverpool University (14 Oct 10)
  • London School of Economics & Political Science (12 Oct 10)
  • Newcastle University (13 Oct 10)
  • Royal Society of Medicine (19 Oct 10)
  • Warwick University (19 Oct 10)
  • Wiener Library (15 Oct 10)
To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Friday, 22 October 2010

Trinity College Dublin - the latest library added to SUNCAT

The serials records of Trinity College Dublin have now been loaded into SUNCAT. This makes it the eighth new SUNCAT Contributing Library this year. With the addition of Trinity College Dublin SUNCAT now has serials information from all the Legal Deposit Libraries, which also include the UK National Libraries, and Cambridge University Library and the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford. Trinity College Dublin has the largest research library in Ireland, with extensive collections of journals, manuscripts, maps and music reflecting 400 years of academic development. Currently, it is contributing around 180,000 serial records. Unique titles include: Journal of the Scottish and Northern Welsh Pony and Cob Association; Aontas Gaedheal, weekly post (Ireland for the Irish); and L’alouette Dauphinoise; : revue artistique & littéraire, [1880-1882]. Take a look at SUNCAT for more interesting journal titles and their locations.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

  • Bristol University (12 Oct 10)
  • CONSER (20 Oct 10)
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (11 Oct 10)
  • Dundee University (06 Oct 10)
  • Edinburgh College of Art (05 Oct 10)
  • Glasgow University (06 Oct 10)
  • ISSN (15 Oct 10)
  • Leicester University (11 Oct 10)
  • Manchester Metropolitan University (06 Oct 10)
  • Natural History Museum (14 Oct 10)
  • Sheffield University (14 Oct 10)
  • St Andrews University (13 Oct 10)
  • University College London (08 Oct 10)
  • University of London Research Libraries (ULRLS) (05 Oct 10)
To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Friday, 8 October 2010

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

  • British Library (30 Sep 10)
  • Cambridge University (01 Oct 10)
  • Cardiff University (27 Sep 10)
  • CONSER (06 Oct 10)
  • Kent University (01 Oct 10)
  • London Business School (01 Oct 10)
  • London School of Economics & Political Science (13 Sep 10)
  • National Library of Scotland (01 Oct 10)
  • Nottingham University (01 Oct 10)
  • Queen's University, Belfast (01 Oct 10)
  • Reading University (13 Sep 10)
  • Royal College of Music (01 Oct 10)
  • Royal Society (06 Oct 10)
  • Sussex University (01 Oct 10)
  • York University (04 Oct 10)
To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Friday, 1 October 2010

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last two weeks. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

  • CONSER (29 Sep 10)
  • Durham University (23 Sep 10)
  • Edinburgh University (21 Sep 10)
  • King's College London (01 Sep 10)
  • Liverpool University (24 Sep 10)
  • London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (15 Sep 10)
  • Natural History Museum (10 Sep 10)
  • Newcastle University (08 Sep 10)
  • Oxford University (23 Sep 10)
  • Southampton University (27 Sep 10)
  • University College London (07 Sep 10)
  • Warwick University (20 Sep 10)
  • Wellcome Library (23 Sep 10)
To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.