Journals display

The hitlist

As with other media types, the display of serials / journals information in the Folio hitlist comes from 2 settings in g_title_hitlist:

• g_hitlist_title_display
• g_hitlist_title_display2

These in turn link to OLIB’s Output Format records (Data Exchange Reference Data> Output Formats). You can view these by searching  opac title hitlist:

By default Journals hitlist information is displayed as follows:

Journal title details

By default, the top half of the journal title details screen displays:

• Title, Subtitle, linked Title
• Other fields according to what is available in the tidetails_SER array in g_title_details (Media Type and Frequency)

tidetails_SER array in g_title_details:

This is dependent on ";SER;" being one of the media types listed in the showarrays_mt setting.

Adding / removing fields and the order of display is possible as for title details generally.

Most Serial/Journal specific data is displayed in tabs in the lower half of the title details screen:

The following settings in g_title_details control the number of most recently received issues /next expected issues / bound volumes:

• received_issues
• expected_issues
• bound_vols

To exclude any of these sections altogether, set their Value field to 0 (zero).

The following settings in g_title_details determine which tabs and content are displayed for serials and in what order in the lower half of the page:

• tidetails_tabs_SER (journals)
• tidetails_tabs_SISS (issues)
• tidetails_tabs_BVOL (bound volumes)
• tidetails_tabs_SART (articles)

1. Go to OPAC> Configuration Settings
2. Search tidetails_tabs and note these settings:

To include a tab e.g. "ser_issues" and its label e.g. "Issues", simply set Include = Y for the appropriate setting.

Issues tab

Here you can configure how many years' worth of issues display. For serial/journal titles the tabs in the lower half of the screen by default display:

• Issues (received and expected from serials generation)
• Holdings (Holdings summary information from cataloguing General Serials title layout)

As shown above, the Issues tab displays:

• Most recently received issues
• Next expected issues
• All unbound issues
• Bound volumes

Journal article details

There are settings to display a serial article's metadata correctly in the top half of the Folio screen:

These are provided in the tidetails_SART array: mtp, output_format2, name, pub and subj. are included.

1. Go to OPAC> Configuration Settings.
2. Search for tidetails_SART:

The array includes output_format2. In this option, Value 3 contains the actual format configuration -

Value 3 can contain any OLSTF tags and text (without double quotes).

<ARTCIT>: this tag includes the Journal title (the "grandparent" record) and the Issue title (the "parent" record), followed by pagination. E.g:

In: History today, Jun 2016, pp46-51.

In the above Value 3, the Languages hash tag set is also included.

Alternatively in Value 3: "<SPTI><br/><PTI>#PSUBTINN# - <PSUBTI>#/PSUBTINN#<br/>Page(s) <PAGES>"

This would include the grandparent (i.e. journal) title, the parent (i.e. issue) title, the parent’s (i.e. issue) subtitle, pagination.

If the output format is a mailto link, include 1| as the first two characters in Value 3. The mailto link will then be HTML-encoded correctly. This is used by a number of libraries who use their output format record with a mailto link in order to receive reservation requests. When the end users clicks on the link in the article details, OLIB outputs the bibliographic data as OLSTF tags directly into an email.