MARC records and discoverability
Discoverability
Our products are discoverable through open web search. All browsers will see search results based on metadata from individual documents and authorised users will be able to click-through to purchased content.
In addition, we partner with discovery service providers to ensure our titles are indexed within the following products:
- Ex Libris (Primo, SFX)
- ProQuest (Summon, 360)
- EBSCO Discovery Service
- OCLC (WorldCat, WorldShare)
MARC records
MARC 21 catalogue records are available to download, free of charge. Zipped folders containing MARC files for each collection are listed below.
For any questions or feedback regarding MARC records, please contact the Metadata and Discovery Manager, Jennifer Wedge at jenniferw@amdigital.co.uk.
MARC records FAQ
For products published after 2016, or updated after 2023, each document will have a corresponding MARC record.
Earlier products may only have MARC records for monographs and serials. We are in the process of reviewing and revising MARC records for all products.
Umbrella: a manually catalogued product-level record. This contains overarching metadata and subject headings for the collection as a whole and provides a URL to the collection homepage.
Collection: manually catalogued records per archive collection within a product.
Monograph: for most products, published books will have a manually catalogued monograph record.
Serial: most periodicals, magazines and newspapers within a product will have manually catalogued serials records. There are variations in how serials records have been used, depending on how the digitised material has been treated in the product.
Automated: all material not identified as a monograph or serial will have a MARC record which has been created through an automated process to enable us to provide metadata for vast and varied collections in a timely manner. The records are based on AM indexing data, which is a combination of metadata produced by AM and the source archive.
Newer automated records (created or updated from 2023 onwards) are created through a more thorough automated process to include appropriate formatting and encoding and authority controlled headings.
Video: record content based on AM indexing data, formatted as a projected medium MARC record through an automated process.
Audio: record content based on AM indexing data, formatted as a non-musical sound recording MARC record through an automated process.
Visual: In newer (2023 and onwards) MARC, visual material such as photographs, prints, maps and artwork has a visual MARC record with content based on AM indexing data, produced through an automated process.
- Click the collection below to download a zipped folder containing MARC records.
- After the download is complete, find the folder in your file explorer.
- Extract the files by right-clicking on the folder and selecting “Extract All”, or double-click (on Mac).
- Once extracted, you can move the records into the cataloguing program used by your library.
AM provides MARC 21 compliant records (in UTF-8), conforming to RDA or AACR2 standards. Where possible, records contain subject headings from international schema (Library of Congress Subject Headings and/or FAST).
Work is ongoing to enhance existing records with controlled subject headings.
Yes, we provide MARC records and associated metadata to the following discovery services: Ex Libris (Primo, SFX), ProQuest (Summon, 360), EBSCO Discovery Service and OCLC (WorldCat and WorldShare).
While we send MARC records to these services as soon as they are available, we do not control when they are made available by the service itself.
MARC records will be usually be available to download from the MARC records page on our corporate site within a few weeks of publication. You can check for these in the “New collections…” section below.
MARC created or updated since 2023 will contain OCLC control numbers in the 035 field. Work is ongoing to insert OCNs into our existing MARC records. If you require OCLC numbers for any of our MARC sets, please contact Customer Support.
Monograph, serial, collection and umbrella MARC records contain Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) in 6XX fields. We are working to introduce authority controlled subject headings into automated, video, audio and visual MARC records in order to improve discoverability for our collections. FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) headings have been used in some automated AM MARC records since 2023.
Discovery services are unable to support a single activation for AM Explorer. Collections will need to be activated individually, or by spreadsheet import (if supported). Please contact Customer Support if you require assistance.
KBART files for collections can be provided on request. Please contact Customer Support for more information.