Glossary of Terms Frequently Used in Discussing Electronic Resources*
(* Click the following to visit:- The Technical Services Glossary of Terms
- The OSUL Glossary of Library Terms.)
aggregator - In the electronic resource world, the term aggregator is used to refer to a "host site." OhioLINK, Catchword and Ingenta are aggregators, in the sense that they gather together at one site numerous electronic journals from many different publishers. We work with these aggregators in much the same way we work with vendors who assist in providing us the print copies of journals from different publishers.
CIC - Committee for Institutional Cooperation
CIRM - OhioLINK’s Cooperative Information Resources Management Committee
CORC - OCLC’s Cooperative Online Resource Catalog
EPC - Electronic Products checklist; may be pulled from TS web site at: http://library.osu.edu/sites/techservices/forms/epcform2.htm
IP Address - Internet Protocol address; the unique identification number/internet address assigned to machine on the Internet
Pay-to-Play - This term is used for specific databases from OhioLINK/OhioNET for which Ohio State University Libraries (Or any participating OhioLINK library) pays a fee to have access to that database. The database in this case is not automatically provided by OhioLINK, but is provided only to those libraries who choose to "Pay-to_Play."
TechPro - OCLC’s professional cataloging service
Uniform Title - The Uniform Title is the standardized title for a work that has appeared under various titles or versions.
Warchest - This term is used for specific databases from OhioLINK where a shared cost it determined by the final list of all participating libraries and the latest FTE counts. For example, Warchest #1 titles include: Contemporary Women’s Issues, Humanities Abstracts, American History and Life, Historical Abstracts, Business and Industry, Disclosure, ITKnowledge, GeoRef, ABC-Political Science
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