SUNCAT: The serials union catalogue for the UK research community

Abstract

SUNCAT is the national Serials Union CATalogue for the UK research community and is available at http://www.suncat.ac.uk SUNCAT is a freely available tool to help both researchers and librarians locate serials held in the UK. It contains serials bibliographic and holdings information from over 60 UK research libraries, including the British Library and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales. The catalogue also contains high quality bibliographic records from CONSER and the ISSN Register. SUNCAT is provided by EDINA, a Joint Information Systems Council (JISC) funded national data centre based at the University of Edinburgh, with partners Ex Libris, who supply the Library Management System, Aleph 500, underpinning the service.