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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES
PRATT-SILS SUMMER SCHOOL 2007
Academic libraries and e-materials ore is for everything
Liz Chapman
Deputy Director of UCL Library Services
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Overview
Definitions
E-ordering and supply
Finance
Licensing
Deals
Content provision
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Definition of terms
Collection developmentBuilding, acquiring, providing
Policy, priorities, budget
Collection managementMonitoring, cancelling, weeding
Policy, priorities, space
Big Deals
Online aggregations (bundles) of e-content from a publisher or supplier for sale or lease on terms which encourage total purchase
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Information for ordering
Who provides information and who decides?
Academic input 40% (60%)
+ reading lists / bibliographies
Library input 60% (40%)
+ crystal ball / policy / new course plans
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Sources of information for ordering: serials
Academic input- The top 100I’m on the board….and I like salamiCrucial for RAE – future metricsCompeting institutions have it
Library inputWhat is used / requestedWhat the Big Deals areBudget constraints
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Electronic and print?
“The library on the desktop”
Contradictions Personal paper copies vs. e-access Library as place vs. library as supplier Invisible supply to desktop Big deals supplant smaller offerings Big Deals curtail cancellation of print Move to e-only not encouraged by publishers but strategic for UCL
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Library suppliers / vendors
Increasing reliance on decreasing number of suppliers All eggs in one basket / language?
Discounts Services Effects of consortia
Internet Inertia
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Finance – how much?
What is being spent in the UK? UK spends far less than USA, Australia, NZUK spends more on average than rest of Europe
– Library increases higher than HE increases overall– Newer universities more on journals than books – Overall books: serials ratio 45 to 37
Figures from reports in 2004 and UCL benchmarking
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Finance – how?
Budget and Prices Bidding for extra funds
Fund accounting by subject Too complex in big deals
Financial year Subscription year Invoices and payment VAT on e
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The other side of the coin: de-selection
A time to refrain from ordering? Access vs. ownership Cooperation and collaboration Open access publishing
Cancellation Price hikes vs. reputation and inertia Usage information
Weeding UK National Research Reserve
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Serials selling and pricing problems
Complex – differing modelsAlphabetical order listings….Price tie-in to historic print subscriptions
see UCL’s move to e-only in STMSelling titles to other publishers – information neededChanges in title – complex URLsBig Deals obscure low use titles Need for reliable use statistics
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A licence to licence
ComplexLongWrong jurisdictionSingle signature required multiple timesPreferable to work with suppliers / agents
Inability to recognize complexities of service – multiple customers - NHS
Librarians are not pirates
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National deals
JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) UK
National Electronic Site Licensing NESLi2 2002-7
Negotiates via an agent Big Deals from major publishersAuthentication and Counter compliant
Also supports: digitisation, repositories, national gateways
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Content provision
Cataloguing – do we still need MARC?
Federated searching
Licensed access for users
Digital preservation – JSTOR Portico, ARL 2005 strategy
Such changes in library practice bring challenges for Library Technical Services and Subject Specialists
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Promotion of e-resources
New materials with expensive price tags need to be used
Need Library branding
Need proper promotion
Librarians like to differentiate:
Databases, back files, e-journals, e-books, image databanks, reference works, sound archives (BL)
Is it important in the Google age?
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User Interface
OptionalSub-
Gateway
Indexing &Metadata
DigitalContent
PaperContent
VLE(WebCT)
Library website
Freely available
A&I Databases
Library catalogues
UCL licensed
A&I databases
UCL owned
eUCLidE-Prints
Reading Lists
ScholarlyGatewayse.g. Intute
MetaLib
SFX
UCL owned
Special Colls archiveExam papers
E-Prints
UCL licensed
E-JournalsE-Books
Freely available
E-JournalsE-Books
Other full textDigital Course Readings
Books Journals Reading Lists Exam Papers
Inter-connected e-services @ UCL
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And Finally…
Happy to answer Questions And to discuss