Codes for Electronic Resource Types
Electronic resources cataloged for the Libraries have an Innovative location code assigned. This code serves two purposes. First, it provides a display of "Available Online" and ability to limit searches by electronic resource in the catalog (Where item is located criteria). Second, the code serves to describe the type, or format, of the electronic resource for use in auto-generated pages from the Digital Registry in the UW Libraries Web Gateway.
This list will continue to evolve and change.
Entries highlighted in gray are categories that create auto-generated pages for major resources on the UW Libraries Web Gateway. Please be selective when adding items to these locations.
| Code | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| elbib (BIB) | Bibliography/Resource list | Includes traditional bibliographies, discographies and filmographies as well as subject-based resource pages consisting primarily of links and lists of items available from commerical publishers |
| elnum (DATA) | Datasets | Includes censuses and other statistical resources as well as geographic information system datasets |
| eldic (DIC) | Dictionaries | Includes dictionaries, language dictionaries/translators, thesauri, and gazetteers (place name indexes). [See Text for biographical dictionaries] |
| eldir (DIR) | Directories | Contact information for individuals and institutions including e-mail, postal information, telephone listings and resource lists of links to home pages |
| elbpk | Electronic Book Packages | Contains aggregations of fulltext electronic books. Examples: Making of America, NetLibrary, Safari Tech Books Online. Sources added to this type will appear on Electronic Book Packages. |
| eljpk | Electronic Journal Packages | Contains aggregations of fulltext electronic journals. Examples: JSTOR, Project Muse, Science Direct. Sources added to this type will appear on Electronic Journal Packages. |
| eljnl (EJ) | Electronic Journals | Includes fulltext electronic items published as periodicals. [See the 3 news categories for news sources].Sources added to this type will appear on Electronic Journals. |
| eltxt (ED) | Electronic Texts & Documents | For static or on-going electronic texts including biographical dictionaries and heavily illustrated texts. Includes sources that don't fit in Indexes, Electronic Book Packages, Electronic Journal Packages, Electronic Journals, Electronic News Databases, Electronic Newspapers, and Electronic News Sources. |
| elenc (ENCY) | Encyclopedias | |
| elind (INDEX) | Finding Articles | Research databases of citations for journal articles, theses, book chapters & including those with full text. This list includes databases that are not considered "best bets" (Major Research Databases) for disciplines. Examples: Archive of dissertation abstracts in music, Hawaii Pacific Journal Index, Searchable abstracts of ACI publications. Sources added to this type will appear on Research Databases. |
| elcat (CAT) | Finding Books | Includes holdings lists of archive, library, and museum collections. Sources added to this type will appear on Catalogs and Research Databases auto generated lists. |
| elvis (IC) | Image Collections | Includes image collections, and both still and moving images including heavily annotated images; also includes aerial photography and remote sensing images (satellite photography). [See Text for heavily illustrated texts] |
| eltut (GUIDE) | Instructional Guides & Tutorials | Includes interactive multimedia tutorials and bibliographic instruction |
| elfrm (FORM) | Journal Abstracts/Tables of Contents | Includes information about journals rather than full text. This could include home pages of organizations sponsoring journals, pages that are tables of contents to print or ejournal issues, and other miscellaneous information such as journal covers. |
| elmap (MAP) | Maps | Includes maps and atlases. [See Datasets for geographic information system datasets. See Image collections for aerial photography. See Dictionaries for gazetteers (place name indexes)] |
| elmus (MR) | Musical Recordings | Includes musical sound recordings. [See also Non-musical Recordings and Musical Scores] |
| elsco (MS) | Musical Scores | Includes graphic or alphanumeric representation of muscial notation, either singly or collections. [See Music for musical sound recordings] |
| elndb | Electronic Newspaper Databases | Databases of citations for newspaper articles including those with fulltext. Examples: Lexis Nexis, National Newspapers, World News Connection. Sources added to this type will appear on Electronic Newspaper Databases. |
| elnti | Electronic Newspapers | Individual titles of electronic fulltext newspapers usually provided by aggregators through a subscription. Example: New York Times provided by ProQuest through National Newspapers. Sources added to this type will appear on Electronic Newspapers. |
| elnew (NEWS) | News Sources | News sources such as wire services, news directories, newspaper homepages usually available freely on the Web. Includes sources not included in Electronic News Databases or Electronic Newspapers. Examples: BBC, CNN, onlinenewspapers.com, al-Ahram Weekly. |
| elsou (NM) | Non-musical recordings | Includes non-musical sound recordings. [See Music for musical recordings] |
| elsof (SW) | Software | Executables or source code that are remote or downloadable which do not fit into another category; often supplemental Web-based programs available over the Web such as unit converters |
| elsea (WSE) | Web search engines | A Web search service |
| elweb (WS) | Websites | Home page of an individual or institution, including campus/library depts., etc. |
