Documents Without Shelves

Documents Without Shelves provides libraries like yours an automatic way to receive MARC records containing the URL/PURL addresses of government documents on the web. You will receive hundreds of new records customized for your local system automatically every month.

If you load these records into an online catalog with the ability to launch directly from a URL/PURL address to the website, your patrons will be able to launch directly to the full text.

Consortium pricing is available for groups of libraries that share a bibliographic database on the same system using the same server.

To see a list of literature available, including a detailed description of Documents Without Shelves, click here.

For a file of six sample records, click here. Note that the records are in MARC format. The sample includes records originally cataloged in paper and also available in other physical formats. A serial record is included. All records have 856 fields which link to the actual document. We can customize the records according to your specifications.