electronic resources australia (era)

Electronic Resources Australia (ERA)

Nikki DarbyExecutive Officer, ERA

What is ERA?• National cross-sectoral consortium• Direct result of work done by library sectoral

representatives• Supports collaborative negotiation and purchase of full

text electronic resources• Open to all Australian libraries: public, school, TAFE,

academic, special and NSLA• Working towards laying the foundation for a simplified

national licensing arrangement

ERA Aims to:

• Make it easier to subscribe and provide access to key electronic resources

• Enable all Australians, regardless of geographic location, to freely access quality full-text electronic resources

• Create collaborative partnerships between libraries• Build partnerships with participating vendors• Develop a framework that supports the purchase of

national licences

ERA Executive Committee

Roxanne MissinghamChair

Special Libraries

Barbara PatisonNSLA Libraries

Helene BrownTAFE Libraries

June Wall &Greg Lindorff

School Libraries

Dr Warwick CathroNational Library

of Australia

Geoff StrempelDeputy Chair

Public Libraries

Lynette MillerSpecial Libraries

ERA Vendors

Subject categories

• Australian News & Business Information

• General Reference• Health Information• Humanities & Social Sciences• Science & Technology

Key terms• Available for both on-site and remote

access• Unlimited number of concurrent users• Use in provision of Virtual Reference

Services• Allows supply of Interlibrary Loan and

Document Delivery

Bibliographic records and holdings

• Working with LA members to add bibliographic records and holdings to the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD)

• This will make these resources discoverable via the Libraries Australia service

Priorities for ERA• Increase library participation• Promote product offerings and assist libraries

promote products to end users• Work actively with other consortia• Review our operations and framework• Manage, negotiate and test product offerings• Continue to lobby for alternative funding

sources

Website: http://era.nla.gov.au/product_list/

Free trials

Electronic Resources Australiahttp://era.nla.gov.au/