SUNCAT

{{short description|Catalog of serial holdings in the UK}}

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The Serials Union Catalogue, or SUNCAT, was a freely available source of information about serials holdings in the United Kingdom, for the UK research community.{{Cite journal |last=Mulligan |first=Zena |date=January 2007 |title=SUNCAT: The serials union catalogue for the UK research community |url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/1514 |language=en}}

For both electronic and print serials, including academic journals, periodicals, newspapers, newsletters, magazines etc.{{Cite web |title=Service Catalogue |url=https://service-cat.edina.ac.uk/service/511/ |access-date=2024-11-28 |website=service-cat.edina.ac.uk}} SUNCAT contained data from over 90 UK research libraries, including the British Library and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales.{{Cite web |last=Mulligan |first=Zena |date=2007 |title=SUNCAT: the Serials UNion CATalogue for the UK research community |url=https://g.co/kgs/FZ5PSbs |website=Research Gate}}

SUNCAT was an EDINA service, and was funded by Jisc. It ran on Ex Libris' Aleph 500 Library Management System.{{Cite journal |last1=Burnhill |first1=Peter |last2=Law |first2=Derek |date=2005 |title=SUNCAT Rising : UK serials union catalogue to assist document access |url=https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/1841/ |journal=Interlending and Document Supply |language=en |volume=33 |issue=4 |pages=203–207 |issn=0264-1615}}

On 31 July 2019,{{cite web | url = https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-447/suncat-retiring | title = SUNCAT is retiring | date = June 10, 2019 | website = USKG | archive-url = https://archive.today/20200704121557/https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-447/suncat-retiring | archive-date = July 4, 2020 | url-status = live | access-date = July 4, 2020 }} SUNCAT, Copac, CCM Tools and the RLUK database were dismissed and replaced by three new services: Library Hub Discover, Library Hub Compare, and Library Hub Cataloguing.{{cite journal | first1 = Bethan | last1 = Ruddock | url = https://publications-prairial.fr/arabesques/index.php?id=1219 | language = en | title = The Jisc National Bibliographic Knowledgebase and Library Hub Discover & Compare and Cataloguing | journal = Ar(abes)ques | issue = 94 - Bibliothèques de recherche en Europe | year = 2019 | publisher = Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur | archive-url = https://archive.today/20200704121236/https://publications-prairial.fr/arabesques/index.php?id=1219 | archive-date = July 4, 2020 | url-status = live | access-date = July 4, 2020 |doi=10.35562/arabesques.1219 | s2cid = 214120884 |issn=2108-7016| url-access = subscription | doi-access = free }}{{cite web | url = https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/jisc-announces-three-new-library-services-22-jul-2019 | title = Jisc announces three new library services | date = July 22, 2019 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20190722173052/https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/jisc-announces-three-new-library-services-22-jul-2019 | archive-date = July 22, 2019 | url-status= live}}