OA Cataloging Resources

Quickguides (links to pdfs below):

•  Dealing with works with many, many, many authors (WWMMMAs)
•  Diacritics, Symbols and Equations (pdf forthcoming)
•  Duplicate Papers (pdf forthcoming)
•  Sponsors
•  Macros
•  Citations
•  Tips for Navigating Publisher Websites

Training:

• How to use the author lookup tool
• Tips for when the submission screen is slow
• Multiphase OA Metadata Production Workflow (ppt version)
• Multiphase OA Metadata Production Workflow (pdf version)

Macros:

OA Cataloging Macros (version 2)

Useful links:

• MIT People Directory

• For editing titles and abstracts to include symbols, special characters and scientific notation:

• FileFormat.Info: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/index.htm 
  

• Mathematical operators: http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_math_operators.html
• Physics symbols: https://physics.info/symbols/
• Latin-script characters with diacritics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_letters

• For finding publication ISSNs or ISBNs:

• ISSN Portal: https://portal.issn.org/

• WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/
  

• For guidance formatting MLA citations (the Open Access Collection uses modified MLA citation guidelines):

• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/