To harvest e-resources records in batch, depending on the information you have, you have several options:
To find a collection and download MARC records from WCM:
In some cases, the collection you want does not exist in WCM and you only have their OCLC number/ISBN/ISSN. To batch downloading their MARC records, using Z39.50 is a good option.
Depending on the number of the records you want to select and download from OCLC number, there are two ways:
If vendor can provide good quality MARC records for titles in the e-collection, that is always the best. However, there are two things you may want to check before loading those records into Alma:
OCLC Number
Some vendor-provided ebook collection records do not have OCLC number in 035 field or any system control number in 035/024 field(s). They only come with a vendor system control number in 001 field. If we do not copy the vendor control number to an appropriate field before importing the records into Alma, Alma will replace the 001 field with Alma MMSID and create a 035 as other system control number. Depending on your consortium or local cataloging rules, you may want to create a local field for the vendor control number. This guide will help you achieve that.
If you have perpetual access to the e-collection and titles in it have OCLC number, you may consider to add this collection in the OCLC reclamation project.
UTF-8 Encoding
Every files uploaded to Alma should be UTF 8 Unicode. Otherwise, some special characters like copyright symbol wouldn't be shown correctly in Alma and Primo. MARC files from Gale for example use MARC 8 instead of UTF 8 and conversion for their records are necessary.
If you have MARC records from vendors, please check the encoding and convert the characters using MarcEdit before importing anything into Alma:
The file generated by MarcEdit should follow UTF 8 encoding.