856 and 956 URLs

The Central Catalog contains records from the OhioLINK Office Catalog with 856 links to consortially purchased and leased e-resources in addition to approved OA material.

OhioLINK uses two MARC fields for URLs of electronic resources (e-resources) in member-contributed records to the Central Catalog:

  • 856 — for specific open access e-resource records (government documents or websites, electronic theses/dissertations, or items held in a local institutional repository)
  • 956 — for links to supplemental resources

For more information, see the Links in Member-Contributed Records in the Central Catalog Policy (December 2022). Instructions for implementing the change will be provided in the InfoHub for anyone who needs them and once they are available they will be linked to from here.

Field Use for Example
856
  1. Government documents or websites
  2. Electronic theses/dissertations (ETDs)
  3. Items held in local institution repository

More information about contributing open access e-resource records to Central is available on Ostaff

 
856 40 $uhttps://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo177193$zConnect to resource
856 40 $uhttp://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1242663220$zConnect to this title online
956

Supplemental resources such as:

  1. Table of contents
  2. Book cover images
  3. Book reviews
  4. Publisher descriptions
  5. Contributor bibliographical information
  6. Index available online
  7. Supplemental material
  8. Author websites

DIAD recommends using $3 in the 956 field to label the supplemental resources, as appropriate:

001 24174052
245 04 $aThe Oxford book of gothic tales /$cedited by Chris Baldick.
956 41 $3 Table of Contents $u http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780192141941.pdf
956 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/91027290-b.html

Setting up the 956 field in your local catalog

Most libraries should already have the 956 field in use. Below is information on setting up the field.

Activating 956: Innovative Interfaces has installed the software on all OhioLINK local systems, Release 2006 or above. Look in your WWWOPTIONS file for LOCALLINK_TAG:

LOCALLINK_TAG=956

Activate this option, if not already active. If you can't find it, look in your test WWWOPTIONS file and move it from the staging directory to the live directory.

Last updated February 2023