I've done something slightly similar. For years, our library has kept track of publications by local authors--mostly journal articles indexed in Medline, but also poster presentations, books, book chapters, etc. Right now the catalog is only available on our hospital intranet, but we're working on making it available to everyone--I hope by later this year.
For further information, see http://www.philobiblios.net/koha. Some of the material is out of date--I realized I could do a few things a lot better than I originally did and had to move some fields around--but you'll get the gist of what I'm working on. Fred King Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center [email protected] 202-877-6221 ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279 Computers save time the way kudzu prevents soil erosion. --Trad -----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mobam Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 4:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Koha] Use koha as a reference database Dear koha-community! This is an amazing project! Thank you all for it! We somehow want to divert Koha slightly from its intended use – and we asked ourselves two questions: 1. Has anyone ever did the same? (My forum search suggests: no) 2. Is it a good idea? Does it make sense? Or are there better alternatives? First of all, we’re no library and we won’t loan books or any other stuff. Basically, we 'just' plan to build a comprehensive database of all relevant bibliographic data in a certain field and continually update it with new data. This database will mainly contain books, book chapters and journal articles and some grey literature. For the last two types, we also want to provide pdf files – if they are open accessible and we have author’s permisson (if needed). Why did we choose Koha? The idea behind our decision was to have a multi featured user interface, where one is enabled to do professional searches within a huge list of literature and where the software also provides additional features. Specifically, we were looking for an OPAC, like the ones we knew from university libraries. The next rationale for Koha was the integrated search function for MARC records, in order to get quality bibliographic data very easily. And last but not least, the possibility to save or export tha gathered data in a format, that is likely to be used in the future, so that the work will not turn out to be for nothing at some point. Do you think, what we are planning to do, is a good idea? Thanks in advance for answers! mobam -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Use-koha-as-a-reference-database-tp5846798.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha MedStar Health is a not-for-profit, integrated healthcare delivery system, the largest in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region. Nationally recognized for clinical quality in heart, orthopaedics, cancer and GI. IMPORTANT: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is private, confidential, or protected by attorney-client or other privilege. If you received this e-mail in error, please delete it from your system without copying it and notify sender by reply e-mail, so that our records can be corrected. Thank you. Help conserve valuable resources - only print this email if necessary. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
