Minimal Bibliographic Record Standards

January 23, 2002
updated September 2008

OhioLINK has standards on what bibliographic records should and should not be contributed to the Central Catalog. The full text of the standard is available at http://www.ohiolink.edu/ostaff/policyhbk/databases/D1b.html.

All contributed records must have a title and imprint. Author, edition, series, and ISBN or ISSN are required if available.

There are three categories of records that should not be contributed to the central site:

Institutions wishing to submit a group of records to the Central Catalog that do not meet the above criteria must request an exception from the Database Management and Standards Committee.