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Electronic Information Services in Higher Education
Alison Gordon
Senior Information Specialist
University of Abertay Dundee
6 August 2002 Information Services, University of Abertay Dundee.
The UAD experience
• Types of EIS– Library catalogues– Books– Journals– Newspapers – free online or subscription– Abstracting/indexing services eg BHI– Subject gateways eg OMNI, SOSIG– Other full text resources eg Cochrane Library
6 August 2002 Information Services, University of Abertay Dundee.
Electronic books
• Purchasing models– Commercial– On demand
• Cataloguing
• Access
• Good things
• Not so good things
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NetLibrary
• Min 100 titles initial purchase – books same price as print edition
• Continuing access fee 15% of purchase for 1 year, 55% for 5 years
• VAT on electronic resources
• ESCROW – extra $1000 or so
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Questia
• Access to entire collection of 70,000 journal articles and books
• $5 per FTE per annum + VAT for libraries
• Or individual subscription - $120 per annum
• Targeted at students
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Ebrary
• Access to entire collection of 10,000 books
• Annual licensing fee for the technology - 75c per FTE
• Access/print/copy fee – 75c per FTE
• VAT
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Pluto Press
• Collections of books by subject• Flat rate book price regardless of print
price• Annual admin fee pro rated by size of
institution• Continuing access 20% of book price
per annum• VAT
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Primis Online – McGraw-Hill
• All McGraw-Hill texts
• Lecturers can view and compile an e-book for students – no charge
• Students go to online book shop and buy/download the book
• Library model in the offing
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And the rest• Oxford Reference Online
– price varies by type of institution – JISC deal for HE– collection of dictionaries and other reference works
• Xreferplus– pricing as Oxford, includes Who’s Who– similar types of work, variety of publishers
• full text government publications eg Scottish Economic Statistics - free on the internet
• etc including more textbooks
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On demand e-books
• Digitisation on site or use an agency
• Copyright
• Finance
• Technology, software - proof reading
• Skills
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Cataloguing
• Create in-house records – new skills required for electronic resources?
• MARC records supplied?
• The book or the collection?
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Access
• Handheld readers – none except W H Smith• Internet
– Do your readers have access?
• Software required– Usually free to download – eg Adobe, ebrary etc– But on every library PC!!!
• Remote access– Usernames and passwords?
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Good things
• Circulation management– Flexible loan periods– Automatic returns – no recalls, no fines– Never closed– No shelving; never lost
• Simultaneous access• Searching, highlighting, note taking, citations• Copyright management
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Not so good things
• Choice of titles– US/UK– Fiction/non-fiction– Currency
• User support• User resistance• Continuity of access if you cancel• Technology change in the future• Copyright and licences - what you can and can’t
do
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Electronic journals
• Purchasing (or access) models
• Management solutions
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Models• Electronic only – internet delivery
– still not common– eg Sociological Research Online (subscription) and free
newsletter type publications from organisations of different types
• Electronic only – email delivery– eg SIS Newsletter; FreePint
• Electronic free with print– Access via aggregators eg ingenta, Catchword
• Searches and abstracts free to anyone
– Access via agents eg Swets, Blackwell• titles only
– Publishers direct
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Models (2)
• Electronic extra with print– Publishers eg Wiley 10-15% more
• Electronic collections– eg ScienceDirect – Elsevier– All publisher’s titles– Discount depends on existing print subscriptions– Archive to 1997– Retain access to paid for years if cancel– Extensive usage statistics
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Models (3)
• Electronic collections– eg European Business ASAP– No link to print spend– Various publishers– Variable archive– Publishers free to withdraw eg Harvard Business Review
• Electronic collections– eg PsycArticles – American Psychological Association all
titles– Extensive and expanding archive– Licence to use only
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Models (4)
• Electronic collections– eg Taylor & Francis– Maintain print subscriptions– Cherry pick minimum extra 10 titles at flat
rate
• Electronic collections– eg Highwire Press– Free access to archive after 1 or 2 years
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E-journals - management
• Cataloguing– No downloadable MARC records– Some shortcut URLs– Catalogue or list?
• Let someone else do the work– Serials Solutions– 1Cate– Tdnet– Library systems
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Evaluation of EIS for purchase
• Very similar to print resources,with some additions– Authority/reputation– Scope/content– Currency– Format– Access/licensing– Archive– Contract– Support
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And finally
• Users like electronic access
• Space considerations
• Standards– software– licences– purchasing models
• No going back now - users hooked!