Associazione ESSPER

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Associazione ESSPER

• ESSPER - Integration of Bibliographic Data-Bases
  and Document Delivery

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The Project

• ESSPER was born in 1995 on the initiative of
  Piero Cavaleri director of the "Mario Rostoni"
  Library of Carlo Cattaneo University of
  Castellanza and involved immediately, as
  members, the other Lombardy libraries specialized
  in economics and social subjects.

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A Simple Idea

• ESSPER is acronym of Economia e scienze sociali
  periodici
• The plan ESSPER is based on the participation of
  the single libraries the librarians create,
  voluntarily and without any charge, the data-base
  with the analytical titles of the periodicals of
  their libraries.

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Mission

• The purpose is to provide instruments for
  information retrieval in the Italian language
  periodical literature for the economy and social
  sciences. Unlike the Angloamerican literature, we
  can find little news on it on the Internet.

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Advantages

• Cooperation has become an essential in the
  librarians job
• There is a wide bibliographic coverage
• The hard work, shared among the membership,
  becomes easier to do
• ESSPER uses a suitable low cost technology
• Money is saved, because there is no need of great
  investments in terms of time, human resources or
  sophisticated software
• Libraries and librarians can provide answers to
  concrete requirements of their users
• Possibility of creating a complex long-term
  project, by sharing our strength

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Successes

• Cumulative catalogue of periodicals possessed by
  participating libraries and a catalogue of
  analytical entries of periodicals created and
  maintained by the members, accessible free of
  charge on the net
• The chance to draw up a standard bibliography
  on-demand
• The possibility of enabling free
  document-delivery among the participating
  libraries

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History

• 2000 - the data-base ESSPER law (previously
  implemented from the CNR) became operative
• 2001 - proposal for the creation of ESSPER
  working papers.
• Writing of the Articles of association with the
  scope of protecting its electronic files
  (available for the free consultation on the net)
  from eventual exploitation trade
• 2002 - ESSPER becomes an Association
• There is an annual meeting, this year was at the
  Ministry of Economics and Finances

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Library Cooperation

• ESSPER constantly supports the cooperation
  between the participating libraries, and
  particularly interlibrary loan and document
  delivery.
• It has created a rich network of relationships
  all around the national territory among many
  kinds of libraries (university libraries,
  documentation centers, etc.) Also one foreign
  library the university Library of Lugano,
  situated in the Italian Canton Ticino of the
  Helvetic Confederation, is member of ESSPER.
• ESSPER satisfies the majority of the demands for
  documents.

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Library Cooperation

• The software shows the ESSPER libraries, which
  owns the periodicals
• Every periodical is linked to the ACNP catalogue
• The dates are transmitted for loading on to the
  ACNP periodically
• ESSPER database is SFX compliant
• ESSPER database can be searched via Metalib

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ESSPER for Document Delivery and Interlibrary
Loans

• The article visualized in the data bank can be
  requested automatically from one ESSPER member
  library
• a simple "click" allows you to load and to
  compile the application form without having to
  insert the data of the article that are found
  automatically
• The ESSPER system mantains the historical records
  for all transactions perfomed while using it

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ESSPER for Document Delivery and Interlibrary
Loans

• Functions for an automatic request for articles
  found in the data bank are available for
• NILDE
• SBN-ILL (function in progress)

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ESSPER for Document Delivery and Interlibrary
Loans

• The function developed for document delivery can
  be used also for requesting interlibrary loans

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ESSPER Numbers

• Membership 99
• Periodicals 498
• Articles with an analytical entry 231094
• Numbers 21456
• Titles in the union catalogue 14452
• People who use alerting service 764

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Each User can

• search by author, by titles, and by key words
• select by year
• know the index of the available periodicals and
  volumes, with the possibility of visualizing the
  title of a volume or a single issue and to select
  the details of a title
• know monthly and yearly statistics about ESSPER
• register for the alerting service

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Management

• The programs allow for inserting and managing the
  resources in remote access on the part of
  participating libraries. The most demanding and
  onerous task is the supervision and maintenance
  of the server that contains the archives
  (situaded in the LIUC).

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• http//www.biblio.liuc.it/biblio/essper/default.ht
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• PCavaleri_at_liuc.it