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As of April 2, 2020, the BAR Digital Collection is live on Fulcrum. To use the BAR Digital Collection, visit fulcrum.org/barpublishing. Please contact bar-support@umich.edu for help with any issues.

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Do not distribute the download link — BAR titles can be accessed by users in a variety of ways, which impacts the URL generated.

Discoverability / Delivery Services

The table below reflects the status of each vendor product.

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MARC Records

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MARC Records

Fulcrum distributes MARC records via the a number of Knowledge Base products. See the table under 'Discoverability / Delivery Services' for details.

Subscribers can also download MARC records directly, free of charge, from https://ftp.fulcrum.org/BAR/MARC/. Files named for a specific product/collection, e.g. 'bar_2022_annual.mrc', contain the cumulative set of MARC records for all titles that are currently live in that collection. These files are the best option for making sure you have the most up-to-date set of records. We also make available incremental update files for those who prefer only to load records that have been added or corrected since your previous load. In this case, just download the load the files named e.g. 'bar_2022_annual._update_YYYY-MM-DD.mrc', substituting YYYY-MM-DD with the all dates that follow the last time you loaded records for this collection.

For example:

  • 'bar_pre2020_collection_int.mrc' contains all records for British Series titles with a publication date prior to 2020.
  • 'bar_pre2020_collection_int_update_2020-10-15.mrc' contains only records for the above collection that were added on October 15, 2020 (either because the title is newly added to the collection or the cataloging is newly complete). It will not contain records from previous update files unless those records are being enhanced or corrected in this update.
  • 'bar_pre2020_collection.mrc' contains all records with publication date prior to 2020, including all titles in both the British Series and International Series.


PLEASE NOTE: The records are MARC21, USMARC records, in Unicode UTF-8 format. There may be a discrepancy between the number of records and the number of books in the collection due to the fact that multi-volume sets share a single record. Every effort has been made to bring these records up to current national standards.

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Since BAR went live in April 2020, 0 titles have been removed from the collection. 


Discoverability / Delivery Services

BAR has entered into a number of agreements to make the collection more discoverable and to enable auto-loading of MARC records. Our agreements should get BAR collections indexed in the following services:

VendorProduct TypeProduct Name
EBSCODiscoveryEBSCO Discovery Service

Knowledge BaseHoldings & Linking Manager (HLM)
OCLCKnowledge BaseCollection Manager

Knowledge BaseWorldCat

Knowledge BaseWorldShare
ProQuest / Ex LibrisDiscoveryPrimo (Central Discovery Index)

DiscoverySummon (Central Discovery Index)

Knowledge Base360 (Client Center, Intota)

Knowledge BaseAlma Community Zone

Knowledge BaseSFX

Note that workflows for getting our content ingested and indexed are still being worked out with some vendors, so the timing of records appearing in different products may vary.

Usage Statistics (Stats)

Institutional subscribers can access their stats for our new platform, Fulcrum, at https://fulcrum.org/counter_reportsThis requires no login; it uses IP authentication to identify the requesting institution. You may need to alter the previous link to a proxied URL in order to be IP-authenticated to the reporting system.

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  1. Your institution must have a SAML-based Identity Provider (IdP) whose metadata we can consume via a stable URL and which defines a security domain using shibMD:scope. This is most commonly achieved through membership to an identity federation that participates in eduGAIN. The following federations have been confirmed to support access to Fulcrum via eduGAIN as of November 2019:
    • Canadian Access Federation (CAF)
    • HEAnet / Edugate
    • InCommon
    • UK Federation
  2. Your Identity Provider must be configured to release attribute 'eduPersonScopedAffiliation' to entityId 'https://fulcrum.org/sp'.
  3. You must provide us with the entityId of your Identity Provider.

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