[DCRM-L] Citing ESTC

[Deborah J. Leslie]

Will,

Although I was arguing the other way in the DCRM-L discussion, I have
been persuaded by the arguments to just use "ESTC," which is what I've
been doing since. One problem I ran across was that I access the ESTC
database most often through the STAR interface rather than the BL
interface, and it just seemed too complicated and not very helpful to
try to distinguish between them. 

How about this for a proposal: Use "ESTC" alone in the 510 for any
citation of the online database, whether from Blaiseline, RLIN, or the
BL, while the CD-ROM and the microfilm versions should be qualified.  

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-----Original Message-----
From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Will Evans
Sent: Wednesday, 05 September, 2007 09:44
To: 'DCRM Revision Group List'
Subject: [DCRM-L] Citing ESTC

Has any consensus been reached as to how we should cite ESTC. I checked
the
RBMS archives, but I didn't find anything conclusive.

Thanks in advance,

Will

BTW Kudos to all involved in the elegant and user-friendly redesign of
the
RBMS website!

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