electronic resources australia (era) nikki darby executive officer, era
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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 licencesTRANSCRIPT
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
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/