Rose Nelson rosecoalliance.org

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What is ERM and How Can it Help You Manage
Electronic Resources?

• Rose Nelson (rose_at_coalliance.org)
• Systems Librarian
• Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
• http//www.coalliance.org
• 303-759-3399

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What I Plan to Cover

• What is an ERM?
• How it can help you to manage e-collections
• Key features in an ERM system
• The Alliance and ERM
• Free Digital Library

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Who Are We?

• Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
• A non-profit consortium of 11 libraries founded
  in 1974. 501c3
• History of innovation
• CARL ILS (sold in 1995) now TLC
• UnCover (sold in 1995) now Ingenta
• We are no longer related to the above

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Who Are We?

• Member of ICOLC
• We do standard consortial stuff with a twist
• Database licensing, shared collection development
• Data hosting Software development (e.g. Gold
  Rush, Prospector, Alliance Digital Repository The
  Charleston Advisor)
• Operates over 20 servers with multiple T1s and
  BGP Internet redundancy

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Confronted with the Problem

• Libraries are spending an increasing amount on
  electronic resources
• Difficult to search and manage electronic
  resources
• DPL has 1139 print periodical subscriptions
• DPL has access to over 14,000 titles from various
  aggregators print in Gold Rush
• Need a way to integrate local journal holdings
  with online databases

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Data from LRS 2005 Public Library Survey
http//www.lrs.org/asp5Fpublic/stats05/
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Solution ERM

• ERM is electronic resource management software
• Makes online databases accessible thru common
  search interface
• Helps librarians manage e-resources including
  contracts and subscriptions

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More on ERM

• Provides collection analysis report to help in
  making purchasing decisions
• Provides direct access to articles without
  forcing patrons to drill down to article level
  links

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More on ERM

• Can be integrated in your library home page thru
  an A-Z list, citation finder, or search boxes

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Common elements of an ERM

• Subscriptions Management
• A-Z list of journals (print and electronic)
• OpenURL linking
• Content Comparison

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Some companies offering ERM

• Serials Solutions
• SFX/Verde (Ex Libris)
• WebBridge/ERM (III)
• TDNet
• Gold Rush (Colorado Alliance of Research
  Libraries)

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Gold Rush knowledge base

• Gold Rush currently has 1300 title lists loaded
  representing more than 50,000 journals
• Primary publishers
• Aggregators
• Indexing abstracting services
• Gold Rush contains many Open Access (free)
  journals available as title lists

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What is OpenURL and why does it matter?
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OpenURL History

• Concept created by Herb van de Sompel in 1999 as
  part of his PhD work at the Univ of Ghent
• Concept papers published in D-Lib Magazine in
  1999
• LANL and Univ of Ghent first test sites
• First commercialized by ExLibris (SFX)
• Resolvers now available from many sources

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OpenURL now 2 versions

• Version 0.1 the original developed in 1999
• NISO version 1.0 approved in late 1995
• Some services support both and some only one
• Gold Rush handles both

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What Makes Open Linking Possible
Target
OpenURL
Link
Source
Link Resolver (Gold Rush)
Target
Metadata
Link
Link
DOI
Target
CrossRef
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Sample OpenURL (0.1)

• First Description of Nest and Nesting Behavior of
  the Nightingale WrenChristian, Daniel G. -
  2000Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 112, No. 2, pp.
  284-287(ISSN 0043-5643)
• http//edjo.coalliance.org/openresolver/grltest.cg
  i?sidIIIgenreJournal20ArticleatitleFirst20
  Description20of20Nest20and20Nesting20Behavior
  20of20the20Nightingale20WrenaulastChristian
  aufirstDaniel20G.titleWilson20Bulletinissn0
  043-5643volume112issue2date2000pages284-28
  7

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OpenURL vs DOI

• Digital Object Identifiers CrossRef is a
  publisher based initiative to provide article
  level linking from their websites.
• CrossRef DOI resolver covers publisher based
  articles which may not be your appropriate copy
  and does not include what is available in other
  local loads, aggregators, etc.
• DOI works best in conjunction with a local
  OpenURL resolver

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Examples of How ERM Works Using Gold Rush as a
Model
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Began search Auraria Library
ArticleFirst
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OCLC - ArticleFirst
Enter Search Term
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Search Results Page
GoldRush scans all holdings for full text
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Gold Rush Linker
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Full Text Article
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Article Finder
Enter Citation
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Authentication
Gold Rush works with underlying authentication
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Full-Text Article
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Searching made easy with A-Z List
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A-Z List Created in Real Time
List of journals-alphabetically
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Do You Have the Journal of Nursing Diagnosis?
Easy to find thru the A-Z list of journals
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Results for Nursing Diagnosis
Database where it is held and coverage dates
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Administrative Features

• Reports
• Holdings
• Subscriptions

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Holdings Analysis Report
Snapshot view of Auraria Library Holdings
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Database Content Comparison Reports
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Content overlap
Journals in common between the two databases
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Holdings

• Ability to add all of your databases, primary
  publishers, and journals
• Ability to export your local holdings from your
  ILS and integrate into Holdings module
• Ability to update or create new holdings records

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Subscriptions

• Keep track of all vendor information-licensing,
  contracts, dates, renewals, cost details,
  subscription history
• Incident tracker-keep track of times with
  particular database is down

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Subscriptions Module Layout
Sections of subscription record broken up into
tabs. Ability to add new fields and sections
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Gold Rush and Open Access
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Open Access Journals/Magazines

• open access is wonderful
• Free to the end user
• Increased use of these titles
• Promotes scholarly research in developed as well
  as third world countries and smaller poorer
  libraries
• Open access journals are not free to produce
  (someone pays somewhere)

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Definition of Open Access

• Lund University Directory of Open Access
  Journal
• We define open access journals as journals that
  use a funding model that does not charge readers
  or their institutions for access. From the BOAI
  definition 1 of "open access" we take the right
  of users to "read, download, copy, distribute,
  print, search, or link to the full texts of these
  articles" as mandatory for a journal to be
  included in the directory. 1 http//www.earlham.
  edu/peters/fos/boaifaq.htmopenaccess
• Quality Control The journal must exercise
  peer-review or editorial quality control to be
  included.
• Research Journal Journals that report primary
  results of research or overviews of research
  results to a scholarly community.
• Periodical A serial appearing or intended to
  appear indefinitely at regular intervals,
  generally more frequently than annually, each
  issue of which is numbered or dated consecutively
  and normally contains separate articles, stories,
  or other writings.

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Gold RushElectronic Serials Mgmt System

• Gold Rush offers
• Includes many of the major open-access title
  lists
• Collaborative building of metadata and title
  lists with participating libraries
• Currently has 80 different open access lists of
  which DOAJ is only one

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No definitive list but GR has the most
comprehensive list

• Lund DOAJ 2500 titles as of early 2007
• Specialized lists from different organizations
  and specialties will include titles missed in the
  Lund directory. For example in Gold Rush
• Geoscience Open Access list created by the
  Colorado School of Mines has 50 titles 38 of
  which are NOT in the Lund DOAJ

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Open Access Digital Library

• http//grweb.coalliance.org/oadl/oadl.html

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Future Developments

• Incorporate Web 2.0 by creating an XML
  gateway-fully customizable interface
• Incident Tracker-subscriptions
• Add your own field and reorder sections in
  subscriptions

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Libraries

• Selected libraries now using Gold Rush include
• Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries member
  libraries
• Several medical libraries in Oklahoma and Texas
• University of New Mexico (UNM), Santa Fe
  Institute
• Brigham Young University
• University of Alaska
• Chicago Public Library
• Fort Collins Public Library
• Aurora Public Library
• and others

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Conclusion

• Gold Rush is successful because of member
  libraries and ongoing customers
• We have continued to develop the software as
  ERMs have evolved
• Gold Rush has been a partnership between
  libraries and the CO Alliance

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Do you need an ERM?

• Is my library to small?
• How many databases do you get?
• Most libraries in CO have databases through AIRS
  and some others locally subscribed to. If you
  only get the AIRS databases from BCR then you
  probably dont need a local ERM
• Do you have trouble tracking what you have and
  when the subscriptions are coming due
• Can your patrons efficiently find your printed
  and electronic subscriptions?