The presentation is an introduction to various challenges that librarians face in managing e-resourcses. It provides helpful pointers to guie librarians on decisions with respect to licensing,
32. SWOT Opportunities Weaknesses Threats Organisational skills Access to premium content ILS and ERMS Anytime Anywhere services ROI Distancing from the user Disintermediation Invisibility of the e-resources Publisher dependencies Integration of Web 2.0 Cross domain mingling E-Marketing of services Low learning curve High impact / visibility Convincing the management Lack of awareness on business models Disintegrated technologies Cost Strengths
The CONTU The National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) Guidelines were drawn up in the 1970’s Guidelines were established for copying for interlibrary loan. first commercial e-book was launched by Random House in 1981 By the mid-1990s, e-books were beginning to be seen as a legitimate alternative- and also as a potential threat- to traditional print publishing. E.g. Barnes & Nobles e-book purchases continue to represent only a very small segment of the total book market. In 2003, for example, e-book purchases in the United States totaled only $10 million of the $24 billion total book market As of August 2006, 135 492 e-books were available in the American market, compared to 1 218 397 hardcover titles A survey of librarians by ebrary in 2007 indicated that 88% of respondents owned or subscribed to e-books Budapest Open Access Initiative, was prepared to provide funding for authors from developing countries to have their articles published in open access journals.
Technology vendors Digital Media Initiatives ePubNow! Eastgate Systems eMeta Corporation InformIT Ingenta Safari Books Online
Owned vs leased content A plethora of business and licensing models Licensing arrangement involves “issues of fair use, digital rights management, preservation, and perpetual ownership”. There is a difference between e-books and e-journals licensing issues. E-book licensing models - includes print, database and Open Access licensing arrangements. Standards for hardware, software, preservation and distribution not in place. Leased content puts the onus of archiving and preservation on the publishers. Librarians to evaluate acceptable and unacceptable clauses in vendor licenses. Cost for online licenses can vary a great deal from library to library. Library must honour the terms and conditions of an agreement it has signed with a publisher. Publisher embargo blocks access to recent e-journal issues. A larger customer base does not multiply production costs as it does for print journals. More visibility and higher citation rates increase the value of the publishers journals. In order to assist librarians in demystifying licenses, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has created LIBLICENSE.
Relational database is used to generate sophisticated Web-based interactive access
In semi automated indexing the terms thrown up by the software for every article are further reviewed by an index-editor with broad subject background of the discipline of the article. Budapest Open Access Initiative, was prepared to provide funding for authors from developing countries to have their articles published in open access journals. An attractive feature of JCCC is the facility it has provided for rights management required in an online environment. If two libraries in a consortium subscribe to the same journal, and one of them has online access rights, online links are shown to users of this library only. These links are not available to the library, which has only print subscription. This way security and license concerns of publishers are taken care of by JCCC.
Available products include A-Z lists for full-text database titles, including holdings and regular updates, MARC records ready for batch loads, title and subject search engines on Web pages, and other e-journal management related services. TDNet, Serials Solutions, and EBSCO host Electronic Journals Service etc.
Copyright - Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws to the authors DRM – access control technologies (restriction on the use or copying of files), protect files from unauthorised use. including copyrights , trademarks , patents IPR - Legal protection given to the creators of new intellectual works
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