SUNCAT Blog

SUNCAT is the Serials Union CATalogue for the UK research community.

SUNCAT is a free EDINA service enabling researchers, librarians and others to locate serials held in libraries throughout the UK. The catalogue contains information on both print and electronic serials, including journals, periodicals, newspapers, newsletters, magazines, annual reports and other publications of a continuing nature.

SUNCAT currently contains serials' information from over 60 UK research libraries, including the British Library and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales. New libraries continue to be added to the catalogue on a regular basis.

Thursday, 19 November 2009

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the past few week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

  • British Library (30 Oct 2009)
  • Leeds University (20 Oct 2009)
  • Newcastle University (14 Oct 2009)
  • Swansea University (15 Oct 2009)
  • University of the West of England (23 Oct 2009)
  • York University (05 Nov 2009)
To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Thursday, 12 November 2009

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the past few weeks. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

  • Birmingham University (17 Oct 2009)
  • British Geological Survey (02 Nov 2009)
  • Cambridge University (04 Nov 2009)
  • Cardiff University (27 Oct 2009)
  • CONSER (01 Nov 2009)
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (09 Nov 2009)
  • Exeter University (08 Oct 2009)
  • Glasgow University (30 Oct 2009)
  • Hull University (14 Oct 2009)
  • Kent University (01 Nov 2009)
  • Leicester University (04 Nov 2009)
  • Liverpool University (26 Oct 2009)
  • London Business School (01 Nov 2009)
  • Manchester Metropolitan University (21 Oct 2009)
  • Manchester Public Libraries (12 Oct 2009)
  • National Library of Scotland (04 Nov 2009)
  • Nottingham University (02 Nov 2009)
  • Oxford University (26 Oct 2009)
  • Queen's University, Belfast (01 Nov 2009)
  • Reading University (21 Oct 2009)
  • Royal College of Music (02 Nov 2009)
  • Royal Society of Medicine (02 Nov 2009)
  • St Andrews University (03 Nov 2009)
  • Sheffield University (14 Oct 2009)
  • Southampton University (26 Oct 2009)
  • University College London (05 Oct 2009)
  • University of London Research Libraries (05 Oct 2009)
  • Warwick University (03 Nov 2009)
  • York University (05 Nov 2009)
To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the past week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

  • British Library (02 Oct 2009)
  • Cambridge University (05 Oct 2009)
  • Edinburgh University (21 Oct 2009)
  • ISSN (15 Oct 2009)
  • Leicester University (21 Oct 2009)
  • London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (02 Oct 2009)
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (15 Oct 2009)
  • Royal Society (21 Oct 2009)
  • Royal Society of Medicine (08 Oct 2009)
To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Wednesday, 21 October 2009

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the past week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

  • Birmingham University (24 Sept 2009)
  • Bristol University (08 Oct 2009)
  • CONSER (15 Oct 2009)
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (12 Oct 2009)
  • Edinburgh Napier University (15 Oct 2009)
  • Queen's University, Belfast (01 Oct 2009)
  • St Andrews University (02 Oct 2009)
  • School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London (06 Oct 2009)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Thursday, 15 October 2009

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the past week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

  • Cardiff University (28 Sept 2009)
  • CONSER (01 Oct 2009)
  • Cranfield University (23 Sept 2009)
  • Durham University (23 Sept 2009)
  • Imperial College, London (21 Sept 2009)
  • London Business School (01 Oct 2009)
  • Manchester University (22 Sept 2009)
  • Nottingham University (01 Oct 2009)
  • Oxford University (30 Sept 2009)
  • Sheffield University (14 Sept 2009)
To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

SUNCAT links to Journals' Tables of Contents

SUNCAT has just introduced links to journals’ tables of contents (ToCs) using information provided by the ToCs service, Zetoc. This development results from work conducted on the Discovery to Delivery project by EDINA and Mimas.

The ToCs links appear on the SUNCAT search result screen and at the top of the full record display. Each link leads to the most recent issue of the appropriate journal title. Currently, there are ToCs links from around 20,000 journal titles, plus conference proceedings on SUNCAT, but this number will expand as new titles are added to Zetoc.

This is an important development for SUNCAT, instantly providing more information about journals on the catalogue. Article details from ToCs can assist users in distinguishing journals of interest, before establishing their location via the holdings information of the 70 libraries available on SUNCAT.



Journal Table of Contents on SUNCAT Full Record Display


Wednesday, 7 October 2009

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the past few weeks. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

  • Aberdeen University (25 Aug 2009)
  • CONSER (15 Sept 2009)
  • Dundee University (10 Sept 2009)
  • Edinburgh University (21 Sept 2009)
  • ISSN (15 Sept 2009)
  • Kent University (01 Oct 2009)
  • Leicester University (17 Sept 2009)
  • London School of Economics & Political Science (28 Sept 2009)
  • National Library of Scotland (01 Oct 2009)
  • Newcastle University (16 Sept 2009)
  • Royal College of Music (01 Oct 2009)
  • Royal Society of Medicine (11 Sept 2009)
  • Southampton University (28 Sept 2009)
  • Stirling University (08 Sept 2009)
  • Swansea University (15 Sept 2009)
  • University of the West of England (23 Sept 2009)
  • Warwick University (02 Oct 2009)
  • Wellcome Library (15 Sept 2009)
  • York University (18 Sept 2009)
  • Zoological Society (08 Sept 2009)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.