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Central Publish to External Catalog from the Alma Network Zone
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AgendaIntroduction
The Publishing Profile
Mapping of Holdings Information
The Institutional Symbol
Exclude of Processing Types
The Publishing Mechanism
Summary and additional resources
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PrerequisitesThis presentation assumes that you have viewed or attended these training sessions:
• Introduction to Alma• Alma Concepts• Intro to Shared NZ topology
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User RolesTo work with the Publishing Profiles, you must have one of the following roles in the Network Zone:
• General System Administrator
• Repository Administrator
• Cataloguing Administrator
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ObjectivesBy the end of this training session, you will be able to:
• Understand the Publishing to OCLC and LA process
• Configure the OCLC and LA publishing profiles in the Network Zone
• Run publishing the LA and OCLC publishing processes
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AgendaIntroduction
The Publishing Profile
Mapping of Holdings Information
The Institutional Symbol
Exclude of Processing Types
The Publishing Mechanism
Summary and additional resources
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The Publishing Profile
• synchronize bibliographic records with embedded holdings information, or holdings information only, with OCLC WorldCat.• synchronize bibliographic records with
embedded holdings information with Libraries Australia.
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The Publishing Profile
• The details for the Publishing Process for either OCLC or LA are defined in the Publishing Profile.• Each Export has it’s own profile record.• The profile defines the DEFAULT
Institution symbol, the ftp definitions and the scheduling of the publishing process.
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The Publishing Profile• From the Main Menu Resource Management
Resource Configuration Configuration Menu• Choose Publishing Profile from under the Record
Export Submenu
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The Publishing Profile• Publish bibliographic records to OCLC
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The Publishing Profile• Publish holdings to OCLC
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The Publishing Profile• Publish holdings to Library of Australia
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AgendaIntroduction
The Publishing Profile
Mapping of Holdings Information
The Institutional Symbol
Exclude of Processing Types
The Publishing Mechanism
Summary and additional resources
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• Allows the mapping of fields from the holdings record into the bib for publish.
• Define the holdings marc field for mapping and the bib marc field it should be mapped to.
Mapping of Holdings Information
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Mapping of Holdings Information
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AgendaIntroduction
The Publishing Profile
Mapping of Holdings Information
The Institutional Symbol
Exclude of Processing Types
The Publishing Mechanism
Summary and additional resources
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• Ability to define a different symbol for specific libraries.
• Only necessary if a different symbol from the default institution symbol is required.
The Institutional Symbol
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The Institutional Symbol
Resource configuration Institution OCLC symbol/Institution NUC symbol
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AgendaIntroduction
The Publishing Profile
Mapping of Holdings Information
The Institutional Symbol
Exclude of Processing Types
The Publishing Mechanism
Summary and additional resources
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Exclude of Processing Types
• Resource configuration Exclude Process Types from Publishing
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AgendaIntroduction
The Publishing Profile
Mapping of Holdings Information
The Institutional Symbol
Exclude of Processing Types
The Publishing Mechanism
Summary and additional resources
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The Publishing Mechanism
• IZ vs NZ
Inventory
Institutional Zone
Network Zone
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The Publishing Mechanism
• Run on a regular basis from the Schedule.• Can be seen from the Export Profile Run
History under the Actions button.
• Or from Administration Menu Monitor Jobs.
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The Publishing Mechanism
• From the Actions Button, it is possible to view the report of the Publish Process.
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The Resulting LA Published File
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AgendaIntroduction
The Publishing Profile
Mapping of Holdings Information
The Institutional Symbol
Exclude of Processing Types
The Publishing Mechanism
Summary and additional resources
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Summary
In this session, you learned how to: • Understand the Publishing to
OCLC and LA process• Configure publishing profiles in
the Network Zone• Run publishing processes
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Additional ResourcesAlma Integrations with External SystemsAlma Resource Management Guide
Available in PDF format via the Ex Libris Documentation Center and as online Help within Alma