期刊名称：Partnership : the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research
印刷版ISSN：1911-9593
出版年度：2007
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：1-29
出版社：The Partnership: The Provincial and Territorial Library Associations of Canada
摘要：This study examines the prevalence of medical subject headings in vendor-supplied cataloguing records for publications contained within aggregated databases or publisher collections. In the first phase, the catalogue of one Canadian academic medical library was examined to determine the extent to which medical subject headings (MeSH) are available in the vendor-supplied records. In the second phase, these results were compared to the catalogues of other Canadian academic medical libraries in order to reach a generalization regarding the availability of MeSH headings for electronic resources. MeSH was more widespread in records for electronic journals but was noticeably lacking in records for electronic monographs, and for Canadian publications. There is no standard for ensuring MeSH are assigned to monograph records for health titles and there is no library in Canada with responsibility for ensuring that Canadian health publications receive Medical Subject Headings. It is incumbent upon libraries using MeSH to ensure that vendors are aware of this need when purchasing record sets.
关键词：Subject headings ; full-text databases ; MARC records ; outsourcing
