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Main Authors: Burke, Gerald, Germain, Carol Anne, Van Ullen, Mary K.
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2003
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ779133
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  • URLs in the OPAC: Integrating or Disintegrating Research Libraries' Catalogs Burke, Gerald Germain, Carol Anne Van Ullen, Mary K. Productivity Research Libraries Internet Online Catalogs Catalogs Web Sites Research library catalogs serve as authoritative sources of access. The increasing practice of including Web sites in the catalog, resources not under the library's control, raises new issues of the catalog's accuracy and reliability. An analysis of ARL libraries' catalogs examined the persistence of cataloged URLs. Error rates ranged from a low of 0% to an unacceptable high of 58.33%.