MARC records

How to update your e-books for FE MARC records

MARC standards are a set of digital formats for the description of items catalogued by libraries, such as books and e-books. Quality-checked MARC21 cataloguing records are freely available from the ProQuest LibCentral website. From here you can access your usage statistics as well as gaining access to the MARC records.

We recommend that all libraries incorporate all the MARC records into their catalogues and provide direct links from the library catalogue and Virtual Learning Environments as it has been shown in several studies that this is essential in raising awareness of the availability of the e-books and encouraging use by students.

To get the latest MARC records

Login to your LibCentral account using your username and password. Access via https://#####.ebookcentral.proquest.com/libcentral/ (where #####is the name of your EbookCentral Site id).

If you don’t know your site ID, login to EbookCentral using your shibboleth credential, your site ID will show in the url https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/auth/lib/#####

If you do not have a Librarian account in LibCentral, please contact ebooksupport@proquest.com requesting access to be set up for you, in the email provide your site ID.

Lib Central log in

Once logged in select Collections from the main menu, then MARC Updates

Drop drop Collections Menu

Choose the MARC Record Set : Subscribed and Owned

Subscribed and/or Owned link

Select to Download the latest MARC record from the table, which will be the top result; then a zip file containing the MARC record and excel files of direct links, will download

Download menu

If you are a Heritage user you will be sent a file from Heritage, please follow their guidance and instructions for the file.

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