OhioLINK has recently purchased and is making available a set of brief records for the Lexis- Nexis Academic Universe. These will also be updated quarterly. T. Davis will provide examples of these records from one of the libraries using them. C. Diedrichs will then forward these with an explanation to Users for discussion. There are numerous issues about these records such as their value, where they point the user, maintenance, system overhead and workload.
More discussion needs to occur before a decision can be made.
One fundamental question raised was whether technological advances such as CrossRef might make this issue moot. As our ability to cross link between types of resources improves, will it be necessary to have these brief records in the catalog. Beyond this, the committee agreed to wait 6 months to see how the things had advanced before reviewing again. Release 2000 included an optional URL checker. At this point, OSU has no plans to purchase this checker from III due to the cost.