MARC records
Easily organise and manage your collections by downloading MARC 21 catalogue records for all AM titles, free of charge.
MARC records include controlled vocabularies and classification schemes, as well as detailed metadata for individual documents within every AM collection, improving searchability and making them more discoverable to you and your user community. We also produce full, manual records for serials, monographs and umbrella records for each collection.
All of our products are discoverable through open web search. All browsers will see search results based on metadata from individual documents, and authorised users will be able to click-through to purchased content.
For any questions or feedback regarding MARC records, please get in touch with Jennifer Wedge, Metadata and Discovery Manager.
MARC records FAQ
For products published after 2016, or updated after 2023, each document will have a corresponding MARC record.
Earlier products may only have MARC records for monographs and serials. We are in the process of reviewing and revising MARC records for all products.
Umbrella: a manually catalogued product-level record. This contains overarching metadata and subject headings for the collection as a whole and provides a URL to the collection homepage.
Collection: manually catalogued records per archive collection within a product.
Monograph: for most products, published books will have a manually catalogued monograph record.
Serial: most periodicals, magazines and newspapers within a product will have manually catalogued serials records. There are variations in how serials records have been used, depending on how the digitised material has been treated in the product.
Automated: all material not identified as a monograph or serial will have a MARC record which has been created through an automated process to enable us to provide metadata for vast and varied collections in a timely manner. The records are based on AM indexing data, which is a combination of metadata produced by AM and the source archive.
Newer automated records (created or updated from 2023 onwards) are created through a more thorough automated process to include appropriate formatting and encoding and authority controlled headings.
Video: record content based on AM indexing data, formatted as a projected medium MARC record through an automated process.
Audio: record content based on AM indexing data, formatted as a non-musical sound recording MARC record through an automated process.
Visual: In newer (2023 and onwards) MARC, visual material such as photographs, prints, maps and artwork has a visual MARC record with content based on AM indexing data, produced through an automated process.
- Click the collection below to download a zipped folder containing MARC records.
- After the download is complete, find the folder in your file explorer.
- Extract the files by right-clicking on the folder and selecting “Extract All”, or double-click (on Mac).
- Once extracted, you can move the records into the cataloguing program used by your library.
AM provides MARC 21 compliant records (in UTF-8), conforming to RDA or AACR2 standards. Where possible, records contain subject headings from international schema (Library of Congress Subject Headings and/or FAST).
Work is ongoing to enhance existing records with controlled subject headings.
Yes, we provide MARC records and associated metadata to the following discovery services: Ex Libris (Primo, SFX), ProQuest (Summon, 360), EBSCO Discovery Service and OCLC (WorldCat and WorldShare).
While we send MARC records to these services as soon as they are available, we do not control when they are made available by the service itself.
MARC created or updated since 2023 will contain OCLC control numbers in the 035 field. Work is ongoing to insert OCNs into our existing MARC records. If you require OCLC numbers for any of our MARC sets, please contact Customer Support.
Monograph, serial, collection and umbrella MARC records contain Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) in 6XX fields. We are working to introduce authority controlled subject headings into automated, video, audio and visual MARC records in order to improve discoverability for our collections. FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) headings have been used in some automated AM MARC records since 2023.
KBART files for collections can be provided on request. Please contact Customer Support for more information.