Marshalling the Troops Tools that Facilitate the Management of Electronic Resources Yvonne Desmond,

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Marshalling the Troops - Tools that Facilitate
the Management of Electronic ResourcesYvonne
Desmond, Faculty Librarian Brian Widdis,
Assistant Librarian
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Electronic Resources

• Management Issues
• How do we keep track?
• How to handle front end delivery?
• Challenges
• Exponential growth
• LMS geared towards print
• Extra tasks

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Print Journal
Details
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License terms
Electronic Journal
Order handling
Offer trial
Pricing
Marketing/ Sales
Hosting site
Invoices
Fulfillment reports
Registration
Acquire
IP Addresses
Title lists
Evaluate Monitor
Campus authentication
Provide Access
Usage stats
Metasearch/ Z39.50
Durable URL Support
Provide Support
Administer
Subscription problems
User IDs
Hardware problems
IP Changes
Software problems
Title Lists for packages
Customer Service
Subscription upgrades
Enforce License terms
Technical Support
Title Changes
Claiming
Peter Rushworth, Ebsco
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So no wonder we feel like
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Help is at hand

• Electronic Problems
• Electronic Solutions
• bring in the troops

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Troops

• Url Checker
• Electronic resources management
• Serials Solutions
• Metasearching
• Link Resolving

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Url Checker

• Utility in LMS to report on URLS
• Can schedule it to run at different times
• Maintain link stability
• You know before user tells you
• Still in early stages

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ERM

• Tracks
• Cost, licensing,purchasing, access, holdings
  data, negotiation details, authentications etc
• Gives all the information you could need
• Brings together data
• Alerts
• Integrated into LMS

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Serials Solutions

• system to track and report full text journals in
  the packages
• can import individual electronic journals if
  library provides the information
• Electronic journals portal
• MARC records
• Reports
• Analyse holdings
• Usage Statistics

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Metafind

• Imposes own search interface
• Single search interface
• Broadcast search
• Simultaneously searches categories
• Results are integrated and linked directly to the
  resource

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What can be searched?

• Anything that is web based and has a search
  mechanism
• Search engines
• Websites
• Databases
• Z39.50 servers
• Indexing/Abstracting databases

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Advantages

• Very powerful tool
• Fast/Stable
• Easy to use
• Easy to profile
• Displays branding
• Positive feedback

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WebBridge

• link resolver
• links one resource to one or more related
  resources
• Source link resolver Target link
• Has to have a predictable OpenuRL
• Seamless and fast linking
• Exploits existing resources

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Demonstration

• Demo

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To conclude

• Battle is lost
• Need to buy in assistance
• Be resigned to spending of budget
• One can help, all is better
• Integrated is best of all
• So that..

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In control!