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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.

Friday, 21 December 2012

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 (13th Dec 2012)
  • CONSER (12 Dec 12)
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (14 Dec 12)
  • Edinburgh University (21 Nov 12)
  • ISSN (15 Dec 12)
  • Liverpool University (15 Dec 12)
  • Southampton University (16 Dec 12)
  • Strathclyde University (22 Nov 12)
  • Swansea University (15 Dec 12)
  • University College London (13 Dec 12)
To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

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Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from SUNCAT

A Christmas tree made from the National Union Catalog, built at the Gleeson Library, the University of San Francisco, CA USA 
The SUNCAT team wishes you all a very merry festive season. Here are some weird and wonderful Christmas titles to round off the year with!
  • Ackermann's juvenile forget me not: a Christmas, New Year's and birth-day present, for youth of both sexes ...
  • Ant-man’s big Christmas.
  • Aunt Judy’s Christmas volume for young people.
  • Beeton’s Every lady’s Christmas annual and almanack for 1876. (The extra no. of Beeton’s Young Englishwoman).
  • Chatterbox Christmas Box.
  • Christmas : hotels and house-parties.
  • Christmas bird count.
  • The Christmas book of Gloops.
  • A Christmas garland from the front.
  • Christmas Leaves, 1877. “Our Villas.” Furnished by the authors of “Ready-Money Mortiboy”
  • Christmas Pie.
  • Cork Christmas packet : a magazine for Cork people everywhere.
  • Heroes of the Hearth. A Christmas Annual ... Edited by H. W. Smith and W. T. Beeson.
  • A very zombie Christmas.
  • Christmas tree taxation / by Matt Triggs.
  • Christmas with the super-heroes.
  • The Simpsons winter wing ding.
  • Santa Claus funnies.
  • 2006-2011 World Outlook for Christmas Tree Ornaments & Decorations Excluding Glass & Electric Christmas Tree Ornaments & Decorations
  • The country gentlemen’s Christmas gift list.
  • Father Christmas, our little ones’ budget, ed. by N. D’Anvers.
  • Jingle Belle.
  • McCall’s Quilting. America quilts for Christmas.
  • Merry and wise. 
Have a look in SUNCAT during 2013 for more interesting titles!




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Monday, 17 December 2012

SUNCAT Newsletter (December 2012) now available


Issue 10 of the SUNCAT Newsletter (December 2012) is now available. It includes information about:
  • New libraries on SUNCAT
  • Redevelopment of SUNCAT
  • SUNCAT's involvement in Open/Linked data project work
  • SUNCAT and RDA
  • SUNCAT's service for the UK Research Reserve (UKRR)
  • Details of the latest user satisfaction survey
  • How to integrate SUNCAT into your library website and services 
  • The Keepers Registry
For further information about SUNCAT please see our website, follow our news on Twitter  or contact the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk .

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Friday, 14 December 2012

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.

  • Aberystwyth University (23 Nov 12)
  • Cambridge University (03 Dec 12)
  • CONSER (05 Dec 12)
  • Dundee University (04 Dec 12)
  • Exeter University (05 Dec 12)
  • King's College London (01 Dec 12)
  • Liverpool University (07 Dec 12)
  • National Library of Scotland (04 Dec 12)
  • NERC: Natural Environment Research Council (03 Dec 12)
  • Nottingham University (03 Dec 12)
  • Royal College of Music (10 Dec 12)
  • Royal College of Nursing (04 Dec 12)
  • Royal Society of Medicine (06 Dec 12)
  • Southampton University (09 Dec 12)
  • Stirling University (14 Nov 12)
  • Warwick University (03 Dec 12)
  • York University (12 Dec 12)
  • Zoological Society of London (07 Dec 12)
To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

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Friday, 7 December 2012

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 Nov 12)
  • Cardiff University (26 Nov 12)
  • London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (30 Nov 12)
  • Robert Gordon University (03 Dec 12)
  • Royal Society (29 Nov 12)
  • School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London (07 Nov 12)
  • Southampton University (02 Dec 12)
  • Warwick University (23 Nov 12)
To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

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