This text documents how a list of NCSU Library licenced electronic journals, in the form of an HTML document, is created from the DRA system and put on a Web server. This is called the Make Ejournals Process. Therefore, a simple search for all the holdings records with this call number, linked to the bibliographic database, can produce a list of titles, database control numbers, and URLs. This exactly what the Gembase report does.
Somebody needs to write a header and footer file for the resulting HTML file.
These files are intended to include HTML code and will most likely make use of server-side includes for the purposes of making the output look like the rest of the Libraries Web pages. The Web server filesystem locations of the header and footer files, as well as the ultimate location outputed HTML file need to be re-defined in the configuration section of the Perl script. These locations tell the Perl script where to get the header and footer files and where to save the output. The definitions in the Appendix are for demonstration purposes only. This is the VMS command file used to initalize and run the IDML report.